The Twenty-First Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2025) will take place August 10–12, 2025, and will be co-located with the 34th USENIX Security Symposium in Seattle, WA, USA.
In cooperation with USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association
Important Dates
All dates are at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time.
- Priority Submission Deadline*: Thursday, April 24, 2025
- Notification of Early Acceptance: Thursday, May 15, 2025
- Submission Deadline: Thursday, May 22, 2025
- Notification of Poster Acceptance: Thursday, June 5, 2025
Posters Co-Chairs
Kovila Coopamootoo, King's College London
Yaxing Yao, Virginia Tech
Poster Jury
Kaustav Bhattacharjee, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Elijah Bouma-Sims, Carnegie Mellon University
Juan Carlos Carrillo
Paul Chung, University of California, San Diego
Killian Davitt, King's College London
Yasmine Elfares
Wellington Esposito Barbosa, The George Washington University
Joseph Hallett, University of Bristol
Muhammad Hassan, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
Anne Hennig, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Yue Huang, CSIRO
Madumere Chukwuka Jerahmeel, King's College London
Smirity Kaushik, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
Hamza Khalid, Tufts University
Monica Kodwani, The George Washington University
Sanjnah Ananda Kumar, Salesforce
Alexandra Xinran Li, Carnegie Mellon University
Veronica Lin, Carnegie Mellon University
Rongjun Ma, Aalto University
Caterina Maidhof, Universitat Politècnica de València
Prianka Mandal, College of William & Mary
Jose Luis Martin Navarro, Aalto University and Universitat Politècnica de València
Phoebe Moh, University of Maryland
Collins Munyendo, The George Washington University
Alexandra Nisenoff, Carnegie Mellon University
Eric Pauley, Virginia Tech
Julio Poveda, University of Maryland
Carson Powers, Tufts University
Harshini Sri Ramulu, Paderborn University
Anna Lena Rotthaler, Paderborn University
Neetesh Saxena, Cardiff University
Saniat Javid Sohrawardi, Rochester Institute of Technology
Ananta Soneji, Arizona State University
Ankush Soni
Sophie Stephenson, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Janusz (Johnny) Świerczyński, Institute for Digital Security and Behaviour, University of Bath
Sarah Tabassum, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Jenny Tang, Carnegie Mellon University
Ron Thompson, Tufts University
Maximiliane Windl, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Y. Kelly Wu, Rochester Institute of Technology
Kyrie Zhou, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Overview
High-quality poster presentations are an integral part of SOUPS. We seek posters and poster abstracts of recent or ongoing research related to usable privacy and security.
We welcome submissions of:
- Preliminary findings from ongoing work
- Undergraduate/master research projects
- Posters about work on usable privacy and security that were recently published at other venues (2024 to 2025)
Poster acceptance will be determined by the poster chairs and jury. Accepted poster submissions will be made available on the website. During the symposium, best poster awards will be selected by the poster jury. At least one member of the research team from each accepted poster must attend SOUPS and present the work.
The poster jury plays a large role in growing the SOUPS community, giving new community members an opportunity to participate in the peer review process. The poster jury also contains a core of senior members. We look forward to an exceptionally diverse, inclusive, and interesting poster session.
We will prepare an interactive and engaging poster session. Presenters can expect to share their work with the community and receive feedback. More details on the exact format will be announced.
Poster submission requirements:
- Poster abstract. Original submissions should use the SOUPS template format (available for MS Word or LaTeX), and be at most 2 pages (excluding references and appendices). For posters on previously published papers, please submit a simple PDF with the following information: the full bibliographic citation (title, authors, venue, etc.), a link to the published (official) version of the paper, and the paper abstract. All submissions must be in PDF format and should not be anonymized.
- Poster. All submissions (including recently published research) must include a draft of the poster to be evaluated for acceptance. Please consider the poster's accessibility (e.g., use text large enough to read when viewed from a reasonable standing distance, use simple non-serif fonts and high contrast between text and background). You can check this guide for more information. For the submission as PDF, please scale the poster down to normal paper size (US letter or A4).
- Poster submissions will be reviewed by the poster jury. We reserve the right to reject without further review submissions that do not include a poster draft. For inspiration, please see the exemplary posters from SOUPS 2024 here.
- Ethical Research. Your poster submission and research approach—including research instruments—should be respectful. Authors are encouraged to include in their submissions an explanation of how ethical principles were followed and may be asked to provide such an explanation should questions arise during the review process. The poster abstract should include an explanation if your organization or institution has provided formal clearance for research with human subjects, or explain why this work is exempted from such clearance. Your poster submission may be rejected if clearance was not obtained. However, such clearance alone does not guarantee acceptance, and the poster jury may reject a poster submission on ethical grounds.
*Priority Submission Deadline
In order to make the SOUPS 2025 poster session more accessible to authors requiring extra time for visa processing, we are introducing a priority submission deadline this year. Authors may choose to submit before the priority deadline, and a round of poster acceptances will be sent out on the same date as full paper notifications. Priority deadline posters that do not receive early acceptance will still be automatically considered in the regular round of poster reviews, with notification in early June.
How to Submit
Submit your poster via the submission system. Please use the correct template and follow formatting instructions when preparing your poster abstract to reduce the need for revision after acceptance.
Registration information will be communicated to authors of accepted posters. At least one poster author must attend the poster session to present the work.
Contact soups25-posters@usenix.org with questions.