Welcome! I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where I am a member of the Security and Privacy Research Group, advised by Prof. Patrick McDaniel, and was the lead graduate student in the McDaniel research group.
I have received my M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University as well as my Diplôme d'Ingénieur (B.S. and M.S. in Engineering Sciences) from the French Engineering School Centrale Lyon.
I am interested in building more secure, privacy-preserving, and trustworthy systems. My current research focuses on online advertising, tracking, and privacy as well as the security of open-source software. I also maintain the Privacy Sandstorm research portal.
On my free time, I enjoy exercising and being in nature, depending on the season, you can find me: bikepacking, geocaching, hiking, playing badminton, running, skiing, snowboarding, or swimming. I also like reading, baking, and hanging out with my two cats.
Email: yohan@beugin.org
@misc{beuginSoKAdvancesOpenProblems2025,
title = {SoK: Advances and Open Problems in Web Tracking},
author = {Yash Vekaria and Yohan Beugin and Shaoor Munir and Gunes Acar and Nataliia Bielova and Steven Englehardt and Umar Iqbal and Alexandros Kapravelos and Pierre Laperdrix and Nick Nikiforakis and Jason Polakis and Franziska Roesner and Zubair Shafiq and Sebastian Zimmeck},
month = jun,
year = {2025},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2506.14057}
}@inproceedings{beuginNeedResearchSandstormPrivacySandbox2024,
title = {The Need for a (Research) Sandstorm through the Privacy Sandbox},
author = {Yohan Beugin and Patrick McDaniel},
month = jul,
year = {2024},
booktitle = {17th Workshop on Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (HotPETs)},
url = {https://privacysandstorm.github.io}
}@inproceedings{beuginInterestDisclosingMechanismsAdvertising2024,
title = {Interest-disclosing Mechanisms for Advertising are Privacy-Exposing (not Preserving)},
author = {Yohan Beugin and Patrick McDaniel},
month = jul,
year = {2024},
booktitle = {Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)},
doi = {10.56553/popets-2024-0004}
}@inproceedings{beuginPublicReproducibleAssessmentTopics2024,
title = {A Public and Reproducible Assessment of the Topics API on Real Data},
author = {Yohan Beugin and Patrick McDaniel},
month = may,
year = {2024},
booktitle = {IEEE Security and Privacy Workshop on Designing Security for the Web (SecWeb)},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2403.19577}
}