Career Profile
I am currently a PhD student in the Societal Computing program at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Lorrie Faith Cranor. My research interests span many areas of security and privacy, and include understanding user behavior and preferences in relation to privacy and security and developing effective privacy choice mechanisms for online consumers.
Prior to starting my PhD, I completed a Bachelors in Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering from Cornell University and a Masters in Information Technology - Information Security from Carnegie Mellon University. I also worked as a software engineer for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Selected Publications
Experiences
As PhD student researcher, I develop user study protocols to investigate research questions in the space of usable privacy and security. I then utilize quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze data collected from these user studies.
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.
Scholarships & Awards
Service
Who Are You!? Adventures in Authentication (WAY) Program Committee (2019)
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PhD Women@SCS Board (2019)
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Graduate Student Assembly (2019)
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OurCS Conference Committee (2019)
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OurCS Facilitator (2017, 2019)
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INI Alumni Leadership Council (2018-)
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Skills & Certifications
IAPP CIPP/CIPT
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IBM SPSS & R
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Git
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Subversion
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MySQL
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Java
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Python
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JavaScript & PHP
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HTML5 & CSS
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Perl
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C
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C++
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