Raphael Serafini

Address:
Universität zu Köln
Institut für Informatik
Weyertal 121 
6.03 
50931 Köln 
Deutschland

Interessen, Lehre, Publikationen

Academic Services

2026

• Program Comittee (PC) Member: Sociotechnical Cybersecurity and Privacy (SCP 2026)

2025

• Program Comittee (PC) Member: European Symposium on Usable Security (EuroUSEC 2025)

2024

• Program Comittee (PC) Member: European Symposium on Usable Security (EuroUSEC 2024)

Awards

• Honorable Mention: Women Security Experts Are Not The Enemy: A Qualitative Study on Gender-Related Communication Challenges (CHI’25)
• Honorable Mention: Exploring the Impact of Intervention Methods on Developers’ Security Behavior in a Manipulated ChatGPT Study (CHI’25)
   

Publications: 

• "The AI tool can’t make it any worse." Investigating Developers’ Security Behavior with AI Assistants in a Password Storage Study
  Asli Yardim, Raphael Serafini,  Nadine Jost, Anne-Marie Ortloff, Joshua Speckels, and Alena Naiakshina
  CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026)
   
• Robust Methods for Developer Screening in Rapidly Evolving AI Contexts
  Raphael Serafini, Nino Weber, Asli Yardim, Stefan Albert Horstmann, Alena Naiakshina
  CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026)
   
• "Sorry for bugging you so much." Exploring Developers’ Behavior Towards Privacy-Compliant Implementation
  Stefan Albert Horstmann, Sandy Hong, David Klein, Raphael Serafini, Martin Degeling, Martin Johns, Veelasha Moonsamy, and Alena Naiakshina
  IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2025)
   
• Women Security Experts Are Not The Enemy: A Qualitative Study on Gender-Related Communication Challenges
  (Honorable Mention)
  Asli Yardim, Stefan Albert Horstmann, Raphael Serafini, Joshua Speckels, and Alena Naiakshina
  CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025)
   
• Exploring the Impact of Intervention Methods on Developers’ Security Behavior in a Manipulated ChatGPT Study
  (Honorable Mention)
  Raphael Serafini, Asli Yardim, and Alena Naiakshina
  CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025)
   
• Engaging Company Developers in Security Research Studies: A Comprehensive Literature Review and Quantitative Survey
  Raphael Serafini, Stefan Albert Horstmann, Alena Naiakshina
  USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX 2024)
   
• ChatGPT-Resistant Screening Instrument for Identifying Non-Programmers
  Raphael Serafini, Clemens Otto, Stefan Albert Horstmann, Alena Naiakshina
  In Proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering 2024 (ICSE 2024)
  Supplementary Material
   
• On the Recruitment of Company Developers for Security Studies: Results from a Qualitative Interview Study
  Raphael Serafini, Marco Gutfleisch, Stefan Albert Horstmann, Alena Naiakshina
  Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2023)