Nicolás E. Díaz Ferreyra

Senior Researcher and Lecturer

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Institute of Software Security

Blohmstr. 15

21079 Hamburg, Germany

I am a senior researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Software Security of Hamburg University of Technology. My main research focus stands at the intersection of human-computer interaction and privacy engineering. Particularly, I seek to create technological solutions for supporting the cybersecurity decisions of social network users and software developers. For this, I elaborate on digital nudging applications, their personalization by means of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and ethical issues arising from combining persuasion with AI.

Before joining the Hamburg University of Technology, I worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Duisburg-Essen. From January 2020 to October 2021 I was the coordinator of the RTG “User-Centered Social Media” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Between August 2018 and September 2021 I participated in the H2020 project “PDP4E: Methods and Tools for GDPR Compliance through Privacy and Data Protection Engineering”. In the past, I have worked as a software engineer in Denmark and as an undergraduate research assistant in Argentina.

Besides conducting my research, I am involved in multi-stakeholder forums for the discussion of public policies and Internet governance issues. Particularly, in debates concerning the users’ right to privacy and control over their private information.

selected publications

  1. JSS ’23
    Simple Stupid Insecure Practices and GitHub’s Code Search: A Looming Threat?
    Russel Go, Ken, Soundarapandian, Sruthi,  Mitra, Aparupa and 2 more authors
    Journal of Systems and Software 2023
  2. MSR ’23
    LLMSecEval: A Dataset of Natural Language Prompts for Security Evaluations
    Tony, Catherine, Mutas, Markus,  Díaz Ferreyra, Nicolás E. and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR ’23) 2023
  3. CHI ’23
    Regret, Delete, (Do Not) Repeat: An Analysis of Self-Cleaning Practices on Twitter After the Outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Díaz Ferreyra, Nicolás E., Shahi, Gautam Kishore,  Tony, Catherine and 2 more authors
    In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’23) 2023
  4. CHASE ’23
    Developers Need Protection, Too: Perspectives and Research Challenges for Privacy in Social Coding Platforms
    Díaz Ferreyra, Nicolás E., Imine, Abdessamad,  Vidoni, Melina and 1 more author
    In 16th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2023) 2023
  5. QRS ’22
    GitHub Considered Harmful? Analyzing Open-Source Projects for the Automatic Generation of Cryptographic API Call Sequences
    Tony, Catherine, Díaz Ferreyra, Nicolás,  and Scandariato, Riccardo
    In 2022 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security Companion (QRS-C) 2022
  6. EuroUSEC ’22
    ENAGRAM: An App to Evaluate Preventative Nudges for Instagram
    Díaz Ferreyra, Nicolás E., Ostendorf, Sina,  Aïmeur, Esma and 2 more authors
    In 2022 European Symposium on Usable Security (EuroUSEC 2022) 2022
  7. ARES ’22
    SoK: Security of Microservice Applications: A Practitioners’ Perspective on Challenges and Best Practices
    Billawa, Priyanka, Bambhore Tukaram, Anusha,  Díaz Ferreyra, Nicolás E. and 3 more authors
    In International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) 2022
  8. MSR ’22
    Vul4J: A Dataset of Reproducible Java Vulnerabilities Geared Towards the Study of Program Repair Techniques
    Bui, Quang-Cuong, Scandariato, Riccardo,  and Díaz Ferreyra, Nicolás E.
    In International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) 2022
  9. EASE ’22
    Conversational DevBots for Secure Programming: An Empirical Study on SKF Chatbot
    Tony, Catherine, Balasubramanian, Mohana,  Díaz Ferreyra, Nicolás E. and 1 more author
    In Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) 2022