Talks / Ideas in conversation
Ideas worth
talking about.
Talks, workshops and conversations about technology and the people who use it, alongside selected coverage of work with my students and collaborators.

Beyond the paper
Research in the news.
Selected coverage and conversations about the work.
The Threat of Package Hallucinations
Joe Spracklen discusses our work on package hallucinations and software supply-chain security.





From Oklahoma to Thailand, OU Showcases Blockchain Security Research
Blockchain-security research with Scott Seidenberger, from Ethereum Foundation grants to Devcon SEA.





In conversation
Talks, workshops & panels.
Recent sessions and a few earlier conversations.

From Hallucinated Packages to Moving-Target DNS
CS 5903, University of Oklahoma
Two security case studies from SecretLab: package hallucinations in generated code and censorship-resistant DNS.

Can You Reverse-Engineer an AI Image?
Humans, agents, and the limits of prompt reconstruction.

Serverless on Google Cloud Workshop
Google Developers Group (GDG) on Campus at OU, University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma

Hacklahoma Vibe Coding Workshop – Pokemon Edition
Hacklahoma, University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma

From Big Data to Valued Data: A Dataset Value Taxonomy for AI-Native Empirical Research
AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES 2025)
Madrid, Spain

OverHear: Headphone Based Multi-Sensor Keystroke Inference
OU Industrial and Systems Engineering Graduate Seminar Series, University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma
Hacklahoma AI Image Generation Workshop
Hacklahoma, University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma
Innovative Assignments with AI
2023 OU Online Conference, University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma
Wireless and Mobile Security Research and Teaching in the Post-Pandemic World
15th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec 2022)
San Antonio, Texas