about me
I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the
LUCI lab working with
Gillian Hayes in the
School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) at the
University of California, Irvine (UCI).
Previously, I received my Ph.D. from the
Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) in the
School of Computer Science (SCS) at
Carnegie Mellon University, working with
Jason Hong and
Dan Siewiorek. As a graduate student, I was a recipient of an
AT&T Labs Fellowship, an
Intel Corporation Ph.D. Fellowship, and a
Northrop Grumman scholarship.
Prior to graduate school, I received a B.S.E. with honors in
Electrical Engineering from
Princeton University, with a concentration in Computational Signal Processing. I also minored in
Computer Science.
My past industry work experiences have included positions at
Intel Labs,
AT&T Labs Research, and
Microsoft.
research interests
My research contributes to the fields of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp). Much of my recent work has focused on usable privacy and, in particular, how to create ways to better support privacy-sensitive sharing in online social networks. For my
Ph.D. dissertation, I designed several privacy-enhancing features for social location sharing applications and conducted empirical studies to better understand end-user privacy preferences, disclosure behaviors, and decision making. As a postdoctoral researcher, I am now applying my interdisciplinary research methods to the fields of
Health Informatics and
Social Computing. In particular, my current work looks at building and evaluating persuasive tools to better capture and share personal information in ways that concurrently support reflection and reuse of the data in a privacy-sensitive manner. Read more about my work on my
projects and
publications pages.