I have successfully defended my dissertation and recently joined the CyLab at Carnegie Mellon University as a research scientist. I am primarily working with Prof. Lorrie Cranor and the CUPS Lab that she directs. We also closely collaborate with researchers from Alcatel-Lucent.
I am a PhD candidate in the so-called "general track of the informatics concentration",
which to me is a blurring but fun blend of the other two tracks (software and ICT)
here at the Dept. of Informatics, and in turn the "generality" of the concentration grants me the freedom to explore the duality of social-techno information technologies.
I am also affiliated with Institute of Software Research (ISR), Secure Computing & Networking Center (SCONCE) and
Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO) here at UCI.
I am very fortunate to have an amazing dissertation committee: Dr. Alfred Kobsa (my advisor), Dr. André van der Hoek, and Dr. Gene Tsudik.
My broad research interests span across the fields of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer-Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW), Privacy and Security, Social Computing, and Software Engineering (SE). I have done research in privacy, security, personalization, software architecture, online communities (blogsphere and online games), and digital money. I am enthusiastic about doing interdisciplinary research and using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
I am very grateful for having the opportunities to work with some extraordinary researchers/mentors during my summer research internships at CommerceNet with Dr. Rohit Khare, Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Lab (FXPAL) with Dr. Daniel Billsus and Dr. David Hilbert, and Intel Research with Dr. Scott Mainwaring, respectively. In addition, I had a 3-month research visit at Institute of Information Systems, Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany in 2006 (during the FIFA World Cup :).
I am finishing up my dissertation project that aims at reconciling web personalization with privacy constraints imposed by legal restrictions and by users’ privacy preferences.
You can find more about my work in my Research and Projects.