Magdalena Pasternak

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2ranked-venue papers
1as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0007-9521-8422ORCID · reported

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Security and privacy · 2 · 1 first-author · 2 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Network and information security
2 papers
Digital forensics and information hiding · 59% Usable security · 41%
Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
1 paper
Accessibility and assistive technology · 100%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Digital forensics and information hiding › deepfake detection
audio deepfake detection
1.122025
Characterizing the Impact of Audio Deepfakes in the Presence of Cochlear Implant · NDSS 2025
"Better Be Computer or I'm Dumb": A Large-Scale Evaluation of Humans as Audio Deepfake Detectors · CCS 2024
Usable security
security user studies
0.812024
"Better Be Computer or I'm Dumb": A Large-Scale Evaluation of Humans as Audio Deepfake Detectors · CCS 2024
Accessibility and assistive technology › assistive technology
cochlear implants
0.312025
Characterizing the Impact of Audio Deepfakes in the Presence of Cochlear Implant · NDSS 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

audio analysis · 1.7thematic analysis · 0.8large-scale user study · 0.8
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Characterizing the Impact of Audio Deepfakes in the Presence of Cochlear Implant
Magdalena Pasternak, Kevin Warren, Daniel Olszewski, Susan Nittrouer, Patrick Traynor, Kevin R. B. Butler
NDSS1
2024 "Better Be Computer or I'm Dumb": A Large-Scale Evaluation of Humans as Audio Deepfake Detectors
abstract
Audio deepfakes represent a rising threat to trust in our daily communications. In response to this, the research community has developed a wide array of detection techniques aimed at preventing such attacks from deceiving users. Unfortunately, the creation of these defenses has generally overlooked the most important element of the system - the user themselves. As such, it is not clear whether current mechanisms augment, hinder, or simply contradict human classification of deepfakes. In this paper, we perform the first large-scale user study on deepfake detection. We recruit over 1,200 users and present them with samples from the three most widely-cited deepfake datasets. We then quantitatively compare performance and qualitatively conduct thematic analysis to motivate and understand the reasoning behind user decisions and differences from machine classifications. Our results show that users correctly classify human audio at significantly higher rates than machine learning models, and rely on linguistic features and intuition when performing classification. However, users are also regularly misled by pre-conceptions about the capabilities of generated audio (e.g., that accents and background sounds are indicative of humans). Finally, machine learning models suffer from significantly higher false positive rates, and experience false negatives that humans correctly classify when issues of quality or robotic characteristics are reported. By analyzing user behavior across multiple deepfake datasets, our study demonstrates the need to more tightly compare user and machine learning performance, and to target the latter towards areas where humans are less likely to successfully identify threats.
Kevin Warren, Tyler Tucker, Anna Crowder, Daniel Olszewski, Allison Lu, Caroline Fedele, Magdalena Pasternak, Seth Layton, Kevin R. B. Butler, Carrie Gates, Patrick Traynor
CCS7