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 and advised by Prof. Patrick McDaniel.
I have received my M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University as well as my Diplôme d'Ingénieur (M.S. and B.S. in Engineering Sciences) from the French Engineering School École Centrale de Lyon.
I am interested in building more secure, privacy-preserving, and trustworthy systems. My current research focuses on security of open-source software as well as tracking and privacy in online advertising.
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},
}
@incollection{beuginWebAlmanacCookies2024,
title = {The 2024 Web Almanac: Cookies},
author = {Yohan Beugin and Sam Dutton and Yana Dimova and Rowan Merewood and Barry Pollard},
month = nov,
year = {2024},
booktitle = {The 2024 Web Almanac},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.14065903},
publisher = {HTTP Archive},
language = {English},
url = {https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/cookies},
}
@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.com},
}
@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}
}