Privacy
Privacy information for shekkizh.com, including browser tools, server APIs, external links, and contact choices.
This is a public research and professional website. Its content pages do not require an account, login, profile, comment, newsletter subscription, or payment. The site publishes research descriptions, papers, blog posts, a curriculum vitae, and small browser tools. Visitors can read those pages without submitting personal information to the site.
Browser tools
The tools are standalone HTML applications intended to run in the browser. The Data Viewer, arXiv Source Explorer, Privacy Sanitizer, and Agent Trace each describe their input and output on the tool itself. The Privacy Sanitizer's browser interface runs the openai/privacy-filter model on-device; text entered there does not need to leave the page. Some tools may store a display preference such as the selected theme in browser storage. Clear the site's browser data to remove such local preferences.
Server API
The optional /api/sanitize endpoint accepts text for server-side personal-information masking. The endpoint limits input length, processes the submitted text in memory with the openai/privacy-filter model, and does not intentionally store the text in application storage. Do not submit confidential or regulated information when a local, synthetic, or already-redacted example is sufficient.
External services
Links to papers, GitHub, Google Scholar, LinkedIn, X, YouTube, conference sites, and the scheduling page lead to services operated by other organizations. Their privacy terms and logging practices apply after you follow those links. Downloaded PDFs and standalone tools are files served by this site, but any network request initiated by a tool is described in that tool's interface.
Questions
For a privacy question or a request to correct information published on this site, email shekkizh at usc dot edu and include the relevant URL. Avoid placing sensitive data in the message unless it is necessary to identify the material at issue. This notice describes the behavior implemented in the public site; hosting and network providers may retain routine security and access logs under their own policies.