Zane Xu

PhD Candidate, Department of Informatics, NJIT

Hi, this is Zane Xu. I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Informatics at NJIT, working in the SPUR Lab under the supervision of Dr. Nathan Malkin. My research focuses on usable security and privacy. I am currently working on studying people’s privacy perspectives on always-recording technologies and the impact of Large Language Models (LLMs) on crowdsourcing research.

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Jun 02, 2026 Student volunteer for citation check on two accepted papers in SOUPS 2026.
May 13, 2026 Passed my qualifying exam with committee members Dr. Lee, Dr. Daher, and Dr. Vinnikov.
May 01, 2026 Presented a poster at NYC Privacy Day on ongoing research about privacy expectations in public.

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