BASILEAL IMANA

Publications

  • ReliabilityRAG: Effective and Provably Robust Defense for RAG-based Web-Search
    Zeyu Shen, Basileal Imana, Tong Wu, Chong Xiang, Prateek Mittal, Aleksandra Korolova
    Under review (Pre-print, 2025)
  • External Evaluation of Discrimination Mitigation Efforts in Meta's Ad Delivery
    Basileal Imana, Zeyu Shen, John Heidemann, Aleksandra Korolova
    Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT, 2025)
    Best Paper Award at FAccT, 2025.
    In Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC), 2025.
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  • Auditing for Bias in Ad Delivery Using Inferred Demographic Attributes
    Basileal Imana, Aleksandra Korolova, John Heidemann
    Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT, 2025)
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  • Auditing for Racial Discrimination in the Delivery of Education Ads
    Basileal Imana, Aleksandra Korolova, John Heidemann
    Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT, 2024)
    Press coverage: The Register, The Intercept
    Cited in a lawsuit against Meta for discriminatory ad delivery practices in education, 2024.
    In Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC), 2024.
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  • Having your Privacy Cake and Eating it Too: Platform-supported Auditing of Social Media Algorithms for Public Interest
    Basileal Imana, Aleksandra Korolova, John Heidemann
    Proceedings of The 26th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW, 2023)
    Presented as a poster in Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy (TPDP), 2022.
    Submitted as a public comment for Delegated Regulation on data access provided for in the Digital Services Act, 2023.
    In Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC), 2023.
    Invited talk at AI and Society: Government, Policy, and Law, 2024.
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  • Auditing for Discrimination in Algorithms Delivering Job Ads
    Basileal Imana, Aleksandra Korolova, John Heidemann
    Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW, 2021)
    Runner-up Best Student Paper Award
    Press coverage: Wall Street Journal, MIT Technology Review, The Intercept, The Register, VentureBeat, Reuters, The Verge
    Cited in a lawsuit against Meta platforms filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), 2022.
    Led to deployment by Meta that modifies its job ad delivery system to mitigate algorithmic discrimination, 2023.
    Presented at Federal Trade Commission's PrivacyCon Conference, 2021.
    In Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC), 2021.
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  • Institutional Privacy Risks in Sharing DNS Data
    Basileal Imana, Aleksandra Korolova, John Heidemann
    Proceedings of the Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW, 2021)
    Press coverage: APNIC Blog
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  • On the Data Fight Between Cities and Mobility Providers
    Guillermo Baltra, Basileal Imana, Wuxuan Jiang, Aleksandra Korolova
    Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro, 2020)
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  • Enumerating Privacy Leaks in DNS Data Collected Above the Recursive
    Basileal Imana, Aleksandra Korolova, John Heidemann
    ISOC NDSS Workshop on DNS Privacy (NDSS DNS Privacy, 2018)
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