Dr. Yousra Javed
Associate Professor of Cybersecurity
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Biography
Dr. Yousra Javed is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Technology. She received her PhD. in Software and Information Systems from the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of North Carolina Charlotte in 2017. She holds a Bsc. and MSc. in Information and Communication Systems Engineering from National University of Sciences and Technology.
Current Courses
IT 250.001 Fundamentals of Information Assurance and Security
IT 276.001 Data Communications
IT 276.002 Data Communications
IT 168.007 Structured Problem Solving Using The Computer
IT 168.013 Structured Problem Solving Using The Computer
Teaching Interests & Areas
Cyber Security, Human Computer Interaction, Programming
Research Interests & Areas
Human Factors in Security and Privacy
Ph D Computing and Information Systems
University of North Carolina Charlotte
Charlotte, North Carolina
MS Communication Systems Engineering
National University of Sciences and Technology
Islamabad, Pakistan
BS Information and Communication Systems Engineering
National University of Sciences and Technology
Islamabad, Pakistan
Outstanding Research Award
School of Information Technology
2025
Outstanding Citizen Award
School of Information Technology
2024
Grants and Contracts
CCRE Cybersecurity Research Grant: Detecting Phishing and Spam Campaigns on Reddit: A Machine Learning Approach
Yousra Javed.
Illinois State University. July 1 2025 - June 30 2026
University Research Grant: Sector-wise Investigation of Strength and Accessibility of CAPTCHAs on South Asian Websites
Yousra Javed.
Illinois State University. July 1 2024 - June 30 2025
DHash: Design and Evaluation of Doodle-based Hash Representation Scheme
Yousra Javed.
School of IT. May 2023
Summer Research Grant (SRG): Systematization of Knowledge on Privacy Policie
Yousra Javed.
School of IT. June 2022 - July 2022
University Research Grant: Systematization of Knowledge on Privacy Policies
Yousra Javed.
Illinois State University. July 1 2022 - June 30 2023
Privacy compliance in the education sector
Yousra Javed.
School of IT. 2021 - June 30 2022
ReCyP:HER - Rethinking Cybersecurity in Pakistan: Human factors' Essential Role
Nida Bajwa, Yousra Javed, Belgin Metin.
Erasmus+. March 2021 - March 2024
SaTC: EDU: Vertically-Aligned Hands-on Cybersecurity Curriculum Based on Adversarial Thinking
Jidong Xiao, Yousra Javed.
NSF. May 1 2021 - April 30 2024
Using Information Technology to Foster Diversity, Equity, Belonging, and Inclusion
Elahe Javadi, Cristan Embree, Jianwei Lai, Zeb Houle, Yousra Javed.
CAST. 2021 - 2022
University Research Grant: Alexa’s Voice Recording Behavior: A Survey of User Understanding and Awareness
Yousra Javed.
Illinois State University. June 1 2019 - 2020
New Faculty Start-up Support
Yousra Javed.
October 11 2017 - September 15 2019
Book, Chapter
Managing and Monitoring Social Network Privacy Policies
Yousra Javed, Mohamed Shehab.
(2021), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27739-9_1600-1, Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy, Springer,
Conference Proceeding
Central Illinois High School Cyber Defense Competition
Dmitri Zhdanov, Yousra Javed.
2025 CAE in Cybersecurity Symposium, 39, (2025)
Effectiveness of video-based risk communication for online DNA data sharing
Yousra Javed.
(2025)
From Concept to Impact: Risk Communication Methods for DNA Data Sharing
Yousra Javed.
(2025)
Security and Privacy Research on Muslim Communities: A Literature Review
Yousra Javed.
(2025)
"Why would Someone Hack Me out of Thousands of Students": Video Presenter's Impact on Motivating Users to Adopt 2FA
Elham Al Qahtani, Lipsa Sahoo, Yousra Javed, Mohamed Shehab.
ACM SACMAT, (2022), https://doi.org/10.1145/3532105.3535013
Automated Analysis of Pakistani Websites’ Compliance with GDPR and Pakistan Data Protection Act
Muhammad Asif, Yousra Javed, Mehdi Hussain.
18th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, (2021)
User Perceptions of Gmail's Confidential Mode
Elham Al Qahtani, Yousra Javed, Mohamed Shehab.
De Gruyter, 2022 (1), 187-206, (2021)
Communication Security in VANETs
Abeer Gauher, Alia Umrani, Yousra Javed.
IEEE 17th International Conference on Smart Communities: Improving Quality of Life Using ICT, IoT and AI (HONET), (2020), 10.1109/HONET50430.2020.9322839
Do Women in Conservative Societies (Not) Follow Smartphone Security Advice? A Case Study of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan
Elham Al Qahtani, Yousra Javed, Lipford, Mohamed Shehab.
EuroUSEC 2020: The 5th European Workshop on Usable Security, (2020), 10.1109/EuroSPW51379.2020.00028
Investigating teenagers’ ability to detect phishing messages
James Nicholson, Yousra Javed, Matt Dixon, Lynne Coventry, Opeyemi Dele-Ajayi, Philip Anderson.
IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), (2020), 10.1109/EuroSPW51379.2020.00027
The Impact of Advertisements on User Attention During Permission Authorization
Yousra Javed, Elham Al Qahtani, Mohamed Shehab.
International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 722-739, (2020), 10.1007/978-3-030-60114-0_47
Alexa's Voice Recording Behavior: A Survey of User Understanding and Awareness
Yousra Javed, Shashank Sethi, Akshay Jadoun.
ACM, (2019)
Multi-Layer Perceptron Artificial Neural Network Based IoT Botnet Traffic Classification
Yousra Javed, Navid Rajabi.
Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference, (2019)
Investigating User Comprehension and Risk Perception of Apple's Touch ID Technology
Yousra Javed, Mohamed Shehab, Emmanuel Bello-Ogunu.
ACM Press, (2017)
Towards Improving Comprehension of Touch ID Authentication with Smartphone Applications
Yousra Javed, Mohamed Shehab.
IEEE, (2017)
A Body of Knowledge for Usable Security and Privacy Education (Abstract Only)
Yousra Javed, Heather Richter Lipford.
ACM Press, (2016)
Investigating the Animation of Application Permission Dialogs: A Case Study of Facebook
Yousra Javed, Mohamed Shehab.
Springer International Publishing, 146-162, (2016)
Information at the Wave of Your Hand
Lina Lee, Yousra Javed, Steven Danilowicz, Mary Lou Maher.
Hanbit Media, Inc., 63–70, (2014)
Access Control Policy Misconfiguration Detection in Online Social Networks
Yousra Javed, Mohamed Shehab.
IEEE, (2013)
How do Facebookers use Friendlists
Yousra Javed, Mohamed Shehab.
IEEE, 343-347, (2012)
Population Density Estimation Using Textons
Yousra Javed, Muhammad Murtaza Khan, Jocelyn Chanussot.
IEEE, 2206-2209, (2012)
Breaking Undercover: Exploiting Design Flaws and Nonuniform Human Behavior
Toni Perkovic, Shujun Li, Asma Mumtaz, Syed Ali Khayam, Yousra Javed, Mario Cagalj.
ACM, 5:1–5:15, (2011)
Captchæcker: Reconfigurable CAPTCHAs based on automated security and usability analysis
Yousra Javed, Maliha Nazir, Muhammad Murtaza Khan, Syed Ali Khayam, Shujun Li.
(2011)
Image texture classification using textons
Yousra Javed, Muhammad Murtaza Khan.
IEEE, (2011)
Embedding a Covert Channel in Active Network Connections
Hassan Khan, Yousra Javed, Fauzan Mirza, Syed Ali Khayam.
IEEE, 4933-4938, (2009)
Central Illinois High School Cyber Defense Competition
Dmitri Zhdanov, Yousra Javed.
2025 CAE in Cybersecurity Symposium
Journal Article
Does negative buzz result in social media discontinuation? Investigating the effects of negative word of mouth in the United States, India, and Finland
Ali Farooq, Joni Salminen, Laila Dahabiyeh, Yousra Javed, Bernard J. Jansen.
Technology in Society, 84, 103103, (2026), 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103103
Does negative buzz result in social media discontinuation? Investigating the effects of negative word of mouth in the United States, India, and Finland
Yousra Javed.
(2025)
Evaluating privacy policies of AI-powered mHealth iOS applications
Yousra Javed, Saaketh Bhojanam.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 32 (10), 1581-1588, (2025), 10.1093/jamia/ocaf130
Evaluating privacy policies of AI-powered mHealth iOS applications.
Yousra Javed.
(2025)
A Systematic Review of Privacy Policy Literature
Yousra Javed, Ayesha Sajid.
ACM Computing Surveys, 57 (2), 1-43, (2024), 10.1145/3698393
Explaining technology migration against the change in terms of use: an fsQCA approach
Ali Farooq, Laila Dahabiyeh, Farhan Ahmed, Yousra Javed.
Information Technology & People, (2023), https://doi.org/10.1108/ITP-07-2022-0498
Managing Access to Confidential Documents: A Case Study of an Email Security Tool
Elham Al Qahtani, Yousra Javed, Sarah Tabassum, Lipsarani Sahoo, Muhammad Shehab.
Future Internet, (2023), https://doi.org/10.3390/fi15110356
When WhatsApp changed its privacy policy: explaining WhatsApp discontinuation using an enablers-inhibitors' perspective
Ali Farooq, Laila Dahabiyeh, Yousra Javed.
Online Information Review, (2023), https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-04-2022-0232
Forensic Analysis of Tor Browser on Windows 10 and Android 10 Operating Systems
Muhammad Raheel Arshad, Mehdi Hussain, Hasan Tahir, Sana Qadir, Faraz Iqbal Ahmed Memon, Yousra Javed.
IEEE Access, 9, 141273-141294, (2021), 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3119724
Privacy Policy Analysis of Banks and Mobile Money Services in the Middle East
Yousra Javed, Elham Al Qahtani, Shehab.
MDPI Future Internet, 13 (1), 10, (2021), https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13010010
A Study of South Asian Websites on Privacy Compliance
Yousra Javed, Khondaker Musfakus Salehin, Mohamed Shehab.
IEEE Access, 8, 156067-156083, (2020), 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3019334
Look before you Authorize: Using Eye-Tracking to Enforce User Attention towards Application Permissions
Yousra Javed, Mohamed Shehab.
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2017 (2), (2017)
Semi-supervised policy recommendation for online social networks
Mohamed Shehab, Hakim Touati, Yousra Javed.
Social Network Analysis and Mining, 6 (1), (2016)
Presentations
AI-BASED ANDROID HEALTHCARE APPLICATIONS PRIVACY POLICIES COLLECTION
Jasmine Dhamers, Laney Dunker, Yousra Javed.
University Research Symposium, Normal, April, 2025
UNMASKING PHISHING: A DATA-DRIVEN ANALYSIS OF TRENDS AND TACTICS IN CYBER DECEPTION
Han Nguyen, Yousra Javed.
University Research Symposium, Normal, April, 2025
Central Illinois High School Cyber Defense Competition
Dmitri Zhdanov, Yousra Javed.
2025 CAE in Cybersecurity Symposium, Charleston, SC, April 9, 2025
ChatGPT Literature Review: Use and Implications in Various Sectors
Elyse Abadeer, Yousra Javed.
University Research Symposium, Normal IL, April 1, 2023
Sector-wise Investigation of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Security Policies in Pakistan
Ayesha Sajid, Yousra Javed.
IEEE 17th International Conference on Smart Communities: Improving Quality of Life Using ICT, IoT and AI (HONET), Marietta, GA (Hybrid), December 21, 2022
Network Forensic Analysis of Twitter Application on Android OS
Alia Umrani, Yousra Javed, Muhammad Iftikhar.
19th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2022), Islamabad, Pakistan, December 12, 2022
A Quantitative Assessment of University Privacy Statements on Readability and Compliance
Yunpeng Li, Yousra Javed.
University Research Symposium, Normal IL, April 1, 2022
Seniors' Media Preference for Receiving Internet Security Information: A Pilot Study
Yousra Javed.
Mobile Privacy and Security for an Ageing Population Workshop at MobileHCI, Barcelona Spain, September 03, 2018
Visual analysis of photo policy misconfigurations using Treemaps
Yousra Javed.
Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, Baltimore Maryland, August 12, 2018
A Body of Knowledge for Usable Security and Privacy Education
Yousra Javed.
University-Wide Teaching and Learning Symposium, Marriott Hotel and Conference Center, Uptown Normal, January 10, 2018