Leadership
Norman M. Sadeh
Research Interests:
Mobile and pervasive computing, Cybersecurity, Online privacy, User-oriented machine learning, and Semantic web technologies with a particular focus on mobile and social networking
Aleecia M. McDonald
Assoc. Director, Privacy Engineering Program
Research Interests:
Public policy issues of Internet privacy including user expectations, behavioral economics and mental models of privacy, and the efficacy of industry self-regulation.
Core Faculty
Alessandro Acquisti
Research Interests:
Economics and behavioral economics of privacy and information security, Privacy and security in online social networks, Economics of computers and AI, Agents economics, Computational economics, Ecommerce, Cryptography, Anonymity, Electronic voting
Yuvraj Agarwal
Research Interests:
Systems and Networking, Embedded Systems and Mobile Computing, Smart Buildings and Smart Grid, Energy Efficient and Resilient Computer Systems
Lujo Bauer
Research Interests:
usable security, proof-carrying authorization, distributed access control, program monitors, security automata, languages for specifying security policies
Travis Breaux
Research Interests:
Requirements and software engineering; Risk and legal compliance; Accessibility, privacy and security
Nicolas Christin
Research Interests:
Online crime modeling, usable and secure authentication and passwords, security economics
Anupam Datta
Research Interests:
Privacy, Audit and Accountability (Formalizing and Enforcing Privacy); Cryptographic Protocols (Programs & People meet Cryptography); Trustworthy Systems (Trustworthy Computing despite Adversaries)
Matt Fredrikson
Research Interests:
Security, privacy, formal methods, and programming languages
Jason Hong
Research Interests:
ubiquitous computing, especially mobile social computing and context-aware computing; usable privacy and security for ubicomp and cloud computing environments
Michael Shamos
Research Interests:
eBusiness technology, electronic voting, graph models of financial systems, experimental mathematics