I am an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I lead the Secure & Transparent Systems Laboratory. My research advances our understanding of cybersecurity operations and everyday user privacy -- the sociotechnical challenges faced by both professional security practitioners and ordinary users as they navigate an increasingly complex digital ecosystem.
I received my Ph.D. from the University of Florida, where I was advised by Professor Kevin Butler and a founding graduate student of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity. My dissertation work was in the area of data provenance, particularly the construction of secure provenance-aware systems. I obtained my M.Sc in Computer Science at the University of Oregon, and bachelors degrees in Computer Science and English Literature from the University of Maryland.
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