Georgetown Faculty Co-Authored Paper Wins Best Paper in Social Impact at 2025 CSAW Applied Research Competition

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A paper co-authored by a research team from the University of Florida, the University of Washington, and Georgetown University has received the Best Paper in Social Impact award at the 2025 CSAW Applied Research Competition (ARC).

The ARC sources papers from the top security, privacy, and usability conferences and asks a panel of judges from industry and academia to select the best papers based on social and technical impact. On November 7, student finalists presented their work to a panel of judges who then ranked the papers.

The award-winning paper, “Analyzing the AI Nudification Application Ecosystem,” was presented by University of Florida PhD student Daniel Olszewski. Georgetown co-authors include Elissa Redmiles, the Clare Luce Boothe Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Yoshi Kohno, the McDevitt Chair in Computer Science, Ethics, and Society and professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Center for Digital Ethics.

The paper investigates AI websites that generate non-consensual, sexualized images of people, highlighting the societal harms of this emerging ecosystem. The work was initially led and presented by Cassidy Gibson at USENIX Security 2025 while she was a University of Florida PhD student, where it received a Distinguished Paper Honorable Mention and the Internet Defense Prize Runner Up Award.