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I'm currently a postdoc at Brown University, working with Shriram Krishnamurthi on creating usable access control mechanisms. Specifically, we are conducting ethnographic studies of workplace computer users to see how they currently share work-related files, what access control mechanisms they frequently encounter, and what types of policy errors occur. We are also designing a new privacy settings interface for social networking websites that will help users correct ambiguities in their policies. In addition to access control, I am in the process of designing several studies to examine how people make online security decisions from a behavioral economics perspective. Previously, I was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University advised by Lorrie Cranor, and was a member of the CUPS Lab.

I am primarily interested in helping people make better computer security decisions. This involves designing and conducting human subjects experiments to gain a better understanding of how people currently make poor security decisions, designing new software and user interfaces that attempt to minimize human error, and then conducting iterative testing through usability studies.

If you are here regarding potential employment in academia or industry research:
Here is my C.V., research statement, and teaching statement.

If you are here regarding my application to Change.gov:
I am primarily interested in an ambassadorship position to a country with a warm climate, political stability, and a weak currency.


Selected Publications:
For a complete list, see my C.V.
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