Lorrie Cranor

Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

Formerly: researcher, AT&T-Labs Research; taught at the Stern School of Business, New York University; 2012-13, spent sabbatical year as Fellow, Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University, working on fibre arts projects that combined interests in privacy and security, quilting, computers and technology. At Carnegie Mellon University: Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy; Director, CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS); Co-Director, MSIT-Privacy Engineering master's programme. Chief Technologist, United States Federal Trade Commission (2016). Co-Founder, Wombat Security Technologies. Has served on a number of boards, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation Board of Directors, and on the editorial boards of several journals. Chaired the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) Specification Working Group, W3C. Author of over 150 research papers on online privacy, usable security and other topics. Key role in building the usable privacy and security research community, having co-edited the seminal book Security and Usability (2005) and founded the Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS). Author of the book Web Privacy with P3P (2002). Recipient of awards: one of the top 100 innovators 35 or younger, Technology Review magazine (2003); named an ACM Fellow for contributions to usable privacy and security research and education (2014); named an IEEE Fellow for contributes to privacy engineering (2016).

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