ALEJANDRO CUEVAS

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Teaching and Service

Mentorship

I’ve had the opportunity to work with a variety of talented students, particularly through CMU’s REUSE program and CMU’s AI Mentoring Program. I’m always happy to discuss possible mentoring opportunities for both academic and professional purposes, particularly for Latino students.

Matthew Muñoz (Princeton MS. Student)
Mohamed Moustafa Dawoud (Ph.D. UC Santa Cruz)
Zhibin Shen (Columbia Undergraduate)
Stephanie Oh (Princeton Undergraduate)
Pranav Gadde (Illinois Mathematics and Sciences Academy)
Haoxiang Yu (Tsinghua University - Yao Class)
Dohyoung Ko (Penn State Undergrad)
Ziping Ye (Penn State Undergrad -> MS. UPenn)
Elena Gonzalez (CMU AI Mentoring Program - 2022/23)
Patrick May (REUSE Cohort 2022 -> BNY Mellon)
Paul Chung (REUSE Cohort 2022 -> Ph.D. UCSD)
Emily Chang (REUSE Cohort 2022)
Jenna Bustami (REUSE Cohort 2021)
Xinyue Lai (REUSE Cohort 2021 -> Apple)
Emma Hogan (REUSE Cohort 2020 -> Ph.D. UCSD -> Prof. Bard College)
Antonio Martorana (Independent Study & Master’s Thesis -> Qualcomm)
Hannah Pearson (Independent Study & Master’s Thesis -> Idaho National Laboratory)

Committees

S3D Faculty Search Committee Ph.D. Admissions - 2023
Societal Computing Ph.D. Admissions - 2022
REUSE Admissions - 2024/23/22/21

Teaching

Fall 2023 - (TA) 07-300 ‘Research and Innovation in Computer Science’ (CMU), w/ Prof. Ruben Martins
Fall 2022 - (TA) 17-303/703: ‘Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, and Applications (CMU), w/ Prof. Nicolas Christin
Fall 2017 - (TA DS-300: ‘Privacy and Security for Data Sciences’ (Penn State), w/ Prof. Anna Squicciarini

Professional Service

Senior PC Member - ICWSM 2026
Reviewer - CHI 2024/25
Program Committee - AsiaCCS 2024/25
Ext. Reviewer - DIS 2025
PC Member - FOCI 2025
Ext. Reviewer - RAID 2024
Ext. Reviewer - GameSec 2022

Invited Talks &
Presentation

2026 “Deepfakes are Dead, Long Live the Deepfakes” - Princeton CITP Seminar (Princeton, NJ)
2025 “Collecting Qualitative Data at Scale with Large Language Models: A Case Study” - CSCW 2025 (Bergen, Oslo)
2025 Panel: “Scale, Engage, or Both?: Potential and Perils of Applying Large Language Models in Interview and Conversation-Based Research“ - CSCW 2025 (Bergen, Oslo)
2025 “Anecdoctoring: Automated Red Teaming Across Language and Place” - EMNLP 2025 (Virtual)
2025 “Why do People Buy and Sell YouTube Accounts?” - Princeton CITP Seminar (Princeton, NJ)
2024 “The Fault in Our Stars: Are Reputation Systems Harmful?”

-> IEEE Communications Society (Pittsburgh, PA)
-> University of California, San Diego Security Seminar (San Diego, CA)

2024 “Finding the Things That You Want to Do” - The Pennsylvania State University, for the Presidential Leadership Academy (Pittsburgh, PA)
2024 “Does Online Anonymous Reputation Matter?” - USENIX Security ‘24 (Philadelphia, PA)
2024 “Falling Stars: How Reputation Systems Fail in Practice”

-> University of Washington Security Seminar (Seattle, WA)
-> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Security Seminar (Champaign, IL)
-> The Pennsylvania State University Security Seminar (University Park, PA)
-> Purdue University CERIAS Seminar (Online)

2023 “MSR Intern Insights” (Redmond, WA)
2023 “Does Online Anonymous Reputation Matter?” - Cylab Partners Conference (Pittsburgh, PA)
2023 “Risks in Cryptocurrency Markets” - Paraguayan Central Bank (Asuncion, Paraguay)
2023 “Applications of Large Language Models for Enterprises” - Universidad Americana (Asuncion, Paraguay)
2022 “Measurement by Proxy: On the Accuracy of Online Marketplace Measurements” - USENIX Security Symposium (Boston, MA)
2022 “Introduction to Darkweb Marketplaces” - Universidad Comunera (Online)
2021 “Observations From an Online Security Competition and Its Implications on Crowdsourced Security” - Workshop on Information Security Workers (Online) 2019 “Overview of Cybersecurity in Paraguay: Challenges and Opportunities for the National Police” - Paraguayan National Police (Department of Financial Crimes), Asuncion, Paraguay