| 2026 | CHI | Robust Methods for Developer Screening in Rapidly Evolving AI Contexts. | Raphael Serafini, Nino Weber, Asli Yardim, Stefan Albert Horstmann, Alena Naiakshina |
| 2026 | CHI | "The AI tool can't make it any worse." Investigating Developers' Security Behavior with AI Assistants in a Password Storage Study. | Asli Yardim, Raphael Serafini, Nadine Jost, Anna-Marie Ortloff, Joshua Gabriel Speckels, Alena Naiakshina |
| 2025 | CHI | Bridging the Gap Between Usable Security Research and Open-Source Practice - Lessons From a Long-Term Engagement With VeraCrypt. | Felix Reichmann, Annalina Buckmann, Konstantin Fischer, M. Angela Sasse, Alena Naiakshina |
| 2025 | CHI | Exploring the Impact of Intervention Methods on Developers' Security Behavior in a Manipulated ChatGPT Study. | Raphael Serafini, Asli Yardim, Alena Naiakshina |
| 2025 | CHI | Women Security Experts Are Not The Enemy: A Qualitative Study on Gender-Related Communication Challenges. | Asli Yardim, Stefan Albert Horstmann, Raphael Serafini, Joshua Gabriel Speckels, Alena Naiakshina |
| 2025 | ICSE | Relationship Status: "It's Complicated" Developer-Security Expert Dynamics in Scrum. | Houda Naji, Marco Gutfleisch, Alena Naiakshina |
| 2025 | SP | "Sorry for Bugging you so much." Exploring Developers' Behavior Towards Privacy-Compliant Implementation. | Stefan Albert Horstmann, Sandy Hong, David Klein, Raphael Serafini, Martin Degeling, Martin Johns, Veelasha Moonsamy, Alena Naiakshina |
| 2024 | CCS | Defying the Odds: Solana's Unexpected Resilience in Spite of the Security Challenges Faced by Developers. | Sbastien Andreina, Tobias Cloosters, Lucas Davi, Jens-Rene Giesen, Marco Gutfleisch, Ghassan Karame, Alena Naiakshina, Houda Naji |
| 2024 | CCS | Using AI Assistants in Software Development: A Qualitative Study on Security Practices and Concerns. | Jan H. Klemmer, Stefan Albert Horstmann, Nikhil Patnaik, Cordelia Ludden, Cordell Burton Jr., Carson Powers, Fabio Massacci, Akond Rahman, Daniel Votipka, Heather Richter Lipford, Awais Rashid, Alena Naiakshina, Sascha Fahl |
| 2024 | ICSE | ChatGPT-Resistant Screening Instrument for Identifying Non-Programmers. | Raphael Serafini, Clemens Otto, Stefan Albert Horstmann, Alena Naiakshina |
| 2023 | SOUPS | On the Recruitment of Company Developers for Security Studies: Results from a Qualitative Interview Study. | Raphael Serafini, Marco Gutfleisch, Stefan Horstmann, Alena Naiakshina |
| 2022 | ICSE | Testing Time Limits in Screener Questions for Online Surveys with Programmers. | Anastasia Danilova, Stefan Horstmann, Matthew Smith, Alena Naiakshina |
| 2022 | SOUPS | Let's Hash: Helping Developers with Password Security. | Lisa Geierhaas, Anna-Marie Ortloff, Matthew Smith, Alena Naiakshina |
| 2021 | ICSE | Do you really code? Designing and Evaluating Screening Questions for Online Surveys with Programmers. | Anastasia Danilova, Alena Naiakshina, Stefan Horstmann, Matthew Smith |
| 2021 | SOUPS | Code Reviewing as Methodology for Online Security Studies with Developers - A Case Study with Freelancers on Password Storage. | Anastasia Danilova, Alena Naiakshina, Anna Rasgauski, Matthew Smith |
| 2020 | CHI | On Conducting Security Developer Studies with CS Students: Examining a Password-Storage Study with CS Students, Freelancers, and Company Developers. | Alena Naiakshina, Anastasia Danilova, Eva Gerlitz, Matthew Smith |
| 2020 | ICSE | One size does not fit all: a grounded theory and online survey study of developer preferences for security warning types. | Anastasia Danilova, Alena Naiakshina, Matthew Smith |
| 2020 | SOUPS | Replication: On the Ecological Validity of Online Security Developer Studies: Exploring Deception in a Password-Storage Study with Freelancers. | Anastasia Danilova, Alena Naiakshina, Johanna Deuter, Matthew Smith |
| 2019 | CHI | "If you want, I can store the encrypted password": A Password-Storage Field Study with Freelance Developers. | Alena Naiakshina, Anastasia Danilova, Eva Gerlitz, Emanuel von Zezschwitz, Matthew Smith |
| 2018 | SOUPS | Deception Task Design in Developer Password Studies: Exploring a Student Sample. | Alena Naiakshina, Anastasia Danilova, Christian Tiefenau, Matthew Smith |
| 2017 | CCS | Why Do Developers Get Password Storage Wrong?: A Qualitative Usability Study. | Alena Naiakshina, Anastasia Danilova, Christian Tiefenau, Marco Herzog, Sergej Dechand, Matthew Smith |
| 2017 | SP | Obstacles to the Adoption of Secure Communication Tools. | Ruba Abu-Salma, M. Angela Sasse, Joseph Bonneau, Anastasia Danilova, Alena Naiakshina, Matthew Smith |