ETH Zurich : Computer Science : Pervasive Computing : Distributed Systems : People : Iulia Ion

Iulia Ion

ETH Zürich CNB H107.2 Universitaetstrasse 6 CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland phone: +41 44 63 20273 fax:+41 44 63 21659 email: iulia.ion ( at ) inf.ethz.ch public key

I received my M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Science from International University in Germany, after which I worked in the Security Area of the Create-Net research institute in Trento, Italy. I joined the Institute for Pervasive Computing at ETH in February 2008. In summer 2009 I visited the CyLab CUPS lab at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, where I worked on usable access control for home storage with Prof. Lorrie Cranor.

Through my research, I hope to help make security and privacy management systems usable (easy to manage and understand by the end-user), starting from mobile interactions such as secure device pairing and reaching to cloud storage and access control policies.

I received the 3rd place at the Young Java Developer's Speaker Competition with the talk "End-to-End Security: Accounting for the User Factor - A Real Case of Application Development." Jazoon Rookie July 2, 2010, Zurich. (slides, video)

I participated in the 40th St. Gallen Symposium, May 6-7, 2010, St. Gallen, Switzerland. The symposium brought together prominent world leaders to discuss the role of entrepreneurs as agents of change. I qualified to participate through the Leader of Tomorrow student competition, with this essay on a novel technology for extracting energy from high-altitude winds: "Winds of Change." (.pdf)

In 2009 I received the Google Anita Borg Scholarship for young women in IT with great technical and leadership skills. I was a scholar finalist in 2008.

In my free time, I like to travel, discuss politics, dance and do outdoor sports.

Publications:

• Rene Mayrhofer, Jürgen Fuß, Iulia Ion
  UACAP: A Unified Auxiliary Channel Authentication Protocol.
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2012
  BibTeX
  Accepted for publication.
  
  
• Dominique Guinard, Iulia Ion, Simon Mayer
  In Search of an Internet of Things Service Architecture: REST or WS-*? A Developers’ Perspective.
  Proceedings of Mobiquitous 2011 (8th International ICST Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems). Copenhagen, Denmark, December 2011
  Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
  
  
• Iulia Ion, Niharika Sachdeva, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Srdjan Capkun
  Home is Safer than the Cloud! Privacy Concerns for Consumer Cloud Storage.
  Proceedings of the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2011). Pittsburgh, PA, USA, July 2011
  Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
  
  
• Iulia Ion, Marc Langheinrich, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, and Srdjan Capkun
  Influence of User Perception, Security Needs, and Social Factors on Device Pairing Method Choices.
  Adjunct Proceedings of Grace Hopper Celebration 2010. ACM Student Research Competition. Atlanta, Georgia, USA, September 2010
  BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
  
  
• Iulia Ion, Marc Langheinrich, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and Srdjan Capkun
  Influence of User Perception, Security Needs, and Social Factors on Device Pairing Method Choices.
  Proceedings of the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2010). Redmond, WA, July 2010
  Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
  
  
• Michelle L. Mazurek, J. P. Arsenault, Joanna Bresee, Nitin Gupta, Iulia Ion, Christina Johns, Daniel Lee, Yuan Liang, Jenny Olsen, Brandon Salmon, Richard Shay, Kami Vaniea, Lujo Bauer, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Gregory R. Ganger, Michael K. Reiter
  Access Control for Home Data Sharing: Attitudes, Needs and Practices.
  Proceedings of CHI 2010. pp. 645-654, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 2010
  Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
  
  
• Rene Mayrhofer, Iulia Ion
  OpenUAT: The Open Source Ubiquitous Authentication Toolkit.
  Technical Report No. 657, ETH Zurich, January 2010
  Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
  
  
• Rene Mayrhofer, Iulia Ion
  Demonstrating OpenUAT, the Open Source Ubiquitous Authentication Toolkit.
  Adjunct Proceedings Pervasive 2009. Nara, Japan, May 2009
  Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
  
  
• Iulia Ion
  Usable Security and Privacy for Spontaneous Interactions and Data Sharing Systems.
  Proceedings of Doctoral Colloquium, Pervasive 2009. Nara, Japan, May 2009
  Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
  
  
• Iulia Ion, Boris Dragovic
  Don't Trust POS Terminals! Verify in-shop payments with your mobile phone.
  SPMU 2008. Sydney, Australia, May 2008
  Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
  
  
• Iulia Ion, Boris Dragovic, Bruno Crispo
  Extending the Java Virtual Machine to Enforce Fine-grained Security Policies in Mobile Devices.
  Proceedings of ACSAC 2007 (the 23rd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference). Miami Beach, Florida, December 2007
  Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
  
  
• Iulia Ion, Alexandru Caracas, Hagen Hoepfner
  MTrainSchedule: Combining Web Services and Data Caching on Mobile Devices.
  Datenbank-Spektrum, Vol. 7, No. 21, pp. 51-53, May 2007
  Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
  
  
• Alexandru Caracas,, Iulia Ion, Mihaela Ion
  Web Services and Data Caching for Java Mobile Clients.
  Proceedings of BTW Studierendenprogramm. Aachen, Germany, March 2007
  Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
  
  
• Alexandru Caracas, Iulia Ion, Mihaela Ion and Hagen Hoepfner
  Towards Java-based Data Caching for Mobile Information System Clients.
  Proceedings of MMS 2007. Aachen, Germany, 2007
  Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
  
  
• Evangelos Kotsovinos, Iulia Ion, Tim Harris
  Resource management for global public computing: many policies are better than (n)one.
  Proceedings of WORLDS 2006 (3rd USENIX Workshop on Real Large Distributed Systems). Seattle, Washington, USA, November 2006
  Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)