Hana Habib

I teach and facilitate core courses in the MSIT-Privacy Engineering program, including Engineering Privacy in Software, Special Topics in Privacy, and Privacy-by-Design Workshop.

I am conducting a user study to explore the effectiveness of different design interventions in preventing individuals who encounter hateful messaging online from acquiring and propagating such views. This research implements approaches related to social identity and normative behavior and extends prior work examining psychological interventions for promoting civil discourse online.

I developed user study protocols to investigate research questions in the space of usable privacy and security. I utilized quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze data collected from these user studies. My thesis provides a systemic approach for evaluating the usability of privacy choice interfaces.

I also served as a Teaching Assistant for Usable Privacy and Security (Spring 2019), a research methods focused graduate level course, and Privacy Policy, Law, and Technology (Fall 2016), a cross-discipline graduate level course.

During my internship, I designed and conducted a user study to better understand the role of context on public sharing decisions of Snapchat users, and communicated the findings to stakeholders within the company to inform future product development. I also collaborated with Marketing, Privacy Engineering, and Legal teams to help establish organizational processes for conducting HCI research.

At Apple, I collaborated with teams cross-functionally to ensure that feature designs for new and existing Apple products were privacy-protective for customers. I also developed tools to automate recurring Privacy Engineering tasks and analyzed reported data to better understand customer privacy needs.

As a research assistant, I facilitated a diary and interview study of online data sharing practices in order to better understand user requirements for applications and services. My contributions included coordinating and conducting participant interviews, and analyzing survey data through interview coding.

I also helped design a user study protocol to investigate effective notification mediums for Internet of Things devices. As part of this study, I modified a PhoneGap Android application to send push notifications containing variations of a privacy notice for a Fitbit device.

While at the DoD, I led efforts to implement capabilities to generate different cryptographic products by a Key Management Infrastructure (KMI). I also updated system components to integrate new KMI capabilities and virtualized them for use in the development environment.