Sebastian Zimmeck
Information Privacy & Security
Science Tower 655, 265 Church Street, Middletown, CT 06459-0128
https://privacytechlab.org
https://www.wesleyan.edu/academics/faculty/szimmeck/profile.html
Work
2018+
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Wesleyan University
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
2016-2018
Institute for Software Research, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Postdoctoral Associate
2012-2016
Department of Computer Science, Columbia University
Research Assistant
2011-2013
Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, University of California
Google Research Fellow
2006–2009
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Attorney at Law
Education
2012–2016
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Columbia University
PhD (Computer Science)
Doctoral thesis advisor: Steven M. Bellovin
2009–2011
Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science, Columbia University
MS (Computer Science)
2005–2006
Berkeley School of Law, University of California
LLM (Master of Laws)
2003–2008
University of Kiel School of Law, Germany
PhD (Law)
Doctoral thesis advisor: Andreas Hoyer
2003
University of Kiel School of Law, Germany
JD (First State Examination)
Publications
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2YlFc5wAAAAJ&hl=en
* Peer-reviewed, ◊ Wesleyan Student, ‡ Equal Contributor, ∥ Abstract/Poster/Short Paper
P25
Generalizable Active Privacy Choice: Designing a Graphical User Interface for Global Privacy Control *
Sebastian Zimmeck, Eliza Kuller ◊, Chunyue Ma ◊, Bella Tassone ◊ and Joe Champeau ◊
24th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)
Bristol, UK and Online Event, July 2024
P24
Usability and Enforceability of Global Privacy Control *
Sebastian Zimmeck, Oliver Wang ◊, Kuba Alicki ◊, Jocelyn Wang ◊ and Sophie Eng ◊
23rd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)
Lausanne, Switzerland and Online Event, July 2023
P23
Improving Internet Privacy with Global Privacy Control (GPC) ∥
Sebastian Zimmeck
5th NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Principal Investigator Meeting (2022 SaTC PI Meeting)
Arlington, Virginia, USA, June 2022
P22
PrivacyFlash Pro: Automating Privacy Policy Generation for Mobile Apps *
Sebastian Zimmeck, Rafael Goldstein ◊ and David Baraka ◊
28th Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
Online Event, February 2021
(Also presented at iOSoho - New York City’s largest iOS Engineer Meetup)
P21
Standardizing and Implementing Do Not Sell *∥
Sebastian Zimmeck and Kuba Alicki ◊
19th ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES)
Online Event, November 2020
P20
Compliance Traceability: Privacy Policies as Software Development Artifacts ∥
Sebastian Zimmeck, Peter Story, Rafael Goldstein ◊, David Baraka ◊, Shaoyan Li, Yuanyuan Feng and Norman Sadeh
Open Day for Privacy, Usability, and Transparency (PUT)
Stockholm, Sweden, July 2019
P19
MAPS: Scaling Privacy Compliance Analysis to a Million Apps *
Sebastian Zimmeck ‡, Peter Story ‡, Abhilasha Ravichander, Daniel Smullen, Ziqi Wang, Joel Reidenberg, N. Cameron Russell and Norman Sadeh
19th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)
Stockholm, Sweden, July 2019
(Also presented at NESD 2019)
P18
Natural Language Processing for Mobile App Privacy Compliance *
Peter Story ‡, Sebastian Zimmeck ‡, Abhilasha Ravichander, Daniel Smullen, Ziqi Wang, Joel Reidenberg, N. Cameron Russell and Norman Sadeh
AAAI 2019 Spring Symposium on Privacy-Enhancing Artificial Intelligence and Language Technologies (PAL)
Palo Alto, CA, USA, March 2019
P17
Analyzing Privacy Policies at Scale: From Crowdsourcing to Automated Annotations
Shomir Wilson, Florian Schaub, Frederick Liu, Kanthashree Mysore Sathyendra, Daniel Smullen, Sebastian Zimmeck, Rohan Ramanath, Peter Story, Fei Liu, Norman Sadeh and Noah A. Smith
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), August 2018
P16
Which Apps have Privacy Policies? *
Peter Story, Sebastian Zimmeck and Norman Sadeh
6th Annual Privacy Forum (APF)
Barcelona, Spain, June 2018
(Also presented at PrivacyCon 2018 and published as Tech Report, CMU-ISR-18-100)
P15
Towards Automatic Classification of Privacy Policy Text ∥
Frederik Liu, Shomir Wilson, Peter Story, Sebastian Zimmeck and Norman Sadeh
Tech Report, CMU-ISR-17-118R, CMU-LTI-17-010
Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 2018
P14
Identifying the Provision of Choices in Privacy Policy Text *∥
Kanthashree Mysore Sathyendra, Shomir Wilson, Florian Schaub, Sebastian Zimmeck and Norman Sadeh
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2017
P13
A Privacy Analysis of Cross-device Tracking *
Sebastian Zimmeck, Jie S. Li, Hyungtae Kim, Steven M. Bellovin and Tony Jebara
26th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
Vancouver, BC, CA, August 2017
P12
Using Machine Learning to Improve Internet Privacy
Sebastian Zimmeck
Columbia University Academic Commons
New York, NY, USA, March 2017
P11
Automated Analysis of Privacy Requirements for Mobile Apps *
Sebastian Zimmeck, Ziqi Wang, Lieyong Zou, Roger Iyengar, Bin Liu, Florian Schaub, Shomir Wilson, Norman Sadeh, Steven M. Bellovin and Joel Reidenberg
24th Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
San Diego, CA, USA, February 2017
(Also presented at SOUPS 2017, PrivacyCon 2017, and PLT 2016)
P10
The Creation and Analysis of a Website Privacy Policy Corpus *
Shomir Wilson, Florian Schaub, Aswarth Abhilash Dara, Frederick Liu, Sushain Cherivirala, Pedro Giovanni Leon, Mads Schaarup Andersen, Sebastian Zimmeck, Kanthashree Mysore Sathyendra, N. Cameron Russell, Thomas B. Norton, Eduard Hovy, Joel Reidenberg and Norman Sadeh
54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Berlin, Germany, August 2016
P09
Demystifying Privacy Policies with Language Technologies: Progress and Challenges *
Shomir Wilson, Florian Schaub, Aswarth Dara, Sushain K. Cherivirala, Sebastian Zimmeck, Mads Schaarup Andersen, Pedro Giovanni Leon, Eduard Hovy and Norman Sadeh
LREC 1st Workshop on Text Analytics for Cybersecurity and Online Safety 2016 (TA-COS)
Portorož, Slovenia, May 2016
P08
“I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints.” – Revealing the Demographics of Location Data *
Chris Riederer, Sebastian Zimmeck, Coralie Phanord, Augustin Chaintreau and Steven M. Bellovin
3rd ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN)
Palo Alto, CA, USA, November 2015
(Also presented at ICWSM 2015, PLSC 2015, NetMob 2015, and COSN 2014)
P07
Privee: An Architecture for Automatically Analyzing Web Privacy Policies *
Sebastian Zimmeck and Steven M. Bellovin
23rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
San Diego, CA, USA, August 2014
(Also presented at PLSC 2014 and FoPNaC 2014)
P06
When Enough is Enough: Location Tracking, Mosaic Theory, and Machine Learning *
Steven M. Bellovin, Renée M. Hutchins, Tony Jebara and Sebastian Zimmeck
8 N.Y.U. J.L. Liberty, 556 (2014)
(Also presented at PLSC 2013)
P05
The Information Privacy Law of Web Applications and Cloud Computing *
Sebastian Zimmeck
29 Santa Clara Computer & High Tech. L.J. 451 (2013)
P04
A Game-theoretic Model for Reasonable Royalty Calculation *
Sebastian Zimmeck
22 Alb. L.J. Sci. & Tech. 357 (2012)
P03
Use of Functional Claim Elements for Patenting Computer Programs *
Sebastian Zimmeck
12 J. High Tech. L. 168 (2011)
P02
Patent Eligibility of Programming Languages and Tools *
Sebastian Zimmeck
13 Tul. J. Tech. & Intell. Prop. 133 (2010)
P01
Grundlagen der Nutzungsrechtsübertragung an Urheberrechtlich Geschützten Computerprogrammen durch den Lizenznehmer *
Sebastian Zimmeck
1 ZGE 324 (2009)
Web Posts
WP16
Op-ed: We need a federal privacy law. Here’s why.
Hartford Courant
May 21, 2023
WP15
Global Privacy Control (GPC) Draft W3C Specification (with Peter Snyder, Justin Brookman, Aram Zucker-Scharff)
W3C Privacy Community Group
April 20, 2023
WP14
Pre-Rulemaking Considerations for the Colorado Privacy Act, Part 2
Office of the Colorado Attorney General
January 7, 2023
WP13
How to Implement Global Privacy Control (GPC) for Publishers (with Aram Zucker-Scharff)
Global Privacy Control Official Site
September 14, 2022
WP12
Comment on the Proposed Regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020
California Privacy Protection Agency
August 21, 2022
WP11
Pre-Rulemaking Considerations for the Colorado Privacy Act
Office of the Colorado Attorney General
July 4, 2022
WP10
The Data Rights Protocol: Threading Privacy Rights into the Internet
MIT Computational Law Report
January 18, 2022
WP09
Data Rights Protocol and Global Privacy Control
Consumer Reports Digital Lab Blog
January 13, 2022
WP08
Comment on the Proposed Rulemaking under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020 (Proceeding No. 01-21)
California Privacy Protection Agency
November 8, 2021
WP07
Opting Out May Not Prevent Websites From Collecting Your Data
Medium
July 17, 2021
WP06
Protect Your Online Privacy with Global Privacy Control (GPC)
Medium
October 24, 2020
WP05
The Privacy of COVID-19 Apps – Reopening Alphaville
The Startup (Medium)
May 18, 2020
WP04
The CCPA is here! Now what?
Dev.to and The Startup (Medium)
January 8, 2020
WP03
How Mobile App Permissions (Don’t) Protect Privacy
The Startup (Medium)
June 6, 2019
WP02
Social Debt: Why Software Developers Should Think Beyond Tech
Medium
January 20, 2019
WP01
The Galaxy Nexus: Still Around After All These Years
Medium
May 27, 2018
Talks
T38
Global Privacy Control: Current Challenges and Future Plans
- October 31, 2023, Current Topics in Privacy Seminar, Carnegie Mello University, Software and Societal Systems Department, Online
T37
An Introduction to Generative AI and its Privacy Implications
- October 30, 2023, Community Foundation of Middlesex County, Online
T36
Leveraging Global Privacy Control to Honor Do Not Sell and Share Requests
- August 16, 2023, IAPP Pune, India, Chapter KnowledgeNet Session, Online
T35
Usability and Enforceability of Global Privacy Control
- July 13, 2023, 23rd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Université de Lausanne and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
T34
Birds of a Feather Session: Privacy Preference Signals
- July 13, 2023, 23rd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Université de Lausanne and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
T33
Global Privacy Control: Opting out from Web Tracking with One Click
- May 5, 2023, Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM) Luncheon, Wesleyan University
T32
TikTok goes to Washington
- April 4, 2023, Where We Live, WNPR Connecticut Public Radio (Panel Discussion)
T31
Privacy through Cryptography: Some Good News
- April 1, 2023, Shasha Seminar for Human Concerns - A Roadmap for Internet Privacy, Wesleyan University
T30
Privacy Preference Signals and Global Privacy Control
- March 27, 2023, Guest lecture in Areins Pelayo’s PHIL 271 “Data, Privacy, and Ethics”
T29
How we work @ privacytechlab.org
- October 21, 2022, Privacy Enhancing Technologies for the Public Interest Workshop, Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science and Engineering, Boston University
T28
Privacy Pioneer: Automating the Creation of Privacy Labels for Websites
- October 3, 2022, Google, Online
T27
Emerging State Privacy Laws: Are They Working for Consumers and Businesses?
- March 24, 2022, Privacy + Security Forum, Online (Panel Discussion)
T26
Cryptography for Cryptocurrencies: The Technologies Behind the Blockchain
- February 23, 2022, Guest lecture in Student Forum ECON 420 “Crypto & Digital Currency: The Future of the Financial Services Industry?”
T25
Data Rights Summit
- October 19, 2021, Consumer Reports Digital Lab and MIT Media Lab, Online (Panel Discussion)
T24
Shasha Seminar: “Deep Fakes in the Age of Misinformation”
- March 12, 2021, Wesleyan University, Online (Panel Discussion Moderator)
T23
Global Privacy Control (GPC)
- September 13, 2022, OneTrust, Online (Panel Discussion)
- June 1-2, 2022, 5th NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Principal Investigator Meeting, Arlington, VA (Poster Presentation)
- May 5, 2022, California Privacy Protection Agency Stakeholder Meeting, Online (Comment)
- March 10, 2022, Offices of California and Colorado Attorneys General, Online (Panel Discussion)
- March 2, 2022, AdTech & Privacy Forum, Online (Panel Discussion)
- December 20, 2021, Connecticut State Senate, Consumer Data Privacy Working Group, Online
- November 16, 2021, German Ministry of Economy, Online
- February 4, 2021, National Association of Attorneys General, Technology Platform Call
- January 27, 2021, The Rise of Privacy Tech’s Data Privacy Day 2021, Online (Panel Discussion)
- December 8, 2020, Northeastern University, Khoury College of Computer Science Talk, Online
- December 3, 2020, UC Davis, Computer Science Colloquium Series, Online
T22
Standardizing and Implementing Do Not Sell
- November 9, 2020, 19th ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, Online
T21
“Getting Hacked is Contagious” – National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
- October 8, 2020, SUNY Canton, Online (Panel Discussion)
T20
Data Privacy & Contact Tracing
- July 22, 2020, CT Education Network, Online (Panel Discussion)
T19
Feature Discussion Series on Privacy for iOS with iOS YouTuber Brian Advent
- June 22, 2020, Q&A: Privacy & iOS Development
- June 4, 2020, Why Privacy Matters, How Data Shapes Our Lives & What Developers Can Do
- May 24, 2020, Privacy and Software Development – How to create a Privacy Policy
T18
PrivacyFlash Pro: Generating Privacy Policies from App Code
- March 12, 2021, School Computing and Information Science, University of Maine, Online
- February 24, 2021, 28th Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), Online
T17
Developing Privacy Policies for iOS Apps
- February 24, 2020, iOSoho - New York City’s largest iOS Engineer Meetup, New York City
T16
Cryptography Essentials
- February 4, 2020, Guest Lecture in Jim Lipton’s COMP 412 – Blockchain Tutorial, Wesleyan University
T15
What Are You Consenting To? A Panel on Data Privacy and Consent
- November 19, 2019, American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, Wesleyan Chapter, Wesleyan University (Panel Discussion)
T14
Mobile App Tracking: Technologies and Privacy Challenges
- October 31, 2019, Class Lecture in Paul Schwartz’s 276.32 - Topics in Privacy and Security Law, University of California, Berkeley
T13
Transparency & Notice: Third Parties and Cross-Device Ad Targeting in the Context of the CCPA
- October 30, 2019, Data Protection in the 2020s: Industry Symposium on the CCPA, Samba TV, San Francisco, CA (Panel Discussion)
T12
On Big Data
- October 3, 2019, Financial Economics Study Group, Wesleyan University
T11
Compliance Traceability: Privacy Policies as Software Development Artifacts (Lightning Talk)
- July 15, 2019, Open Day for Privacy, Usability, and Transparency (PUT), Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
T10
Alternative Data
- April 2, 2019, Financial Economics Study Group, Wesleyan University
T09
MAPS: Scaling Privacy Compliance Analysis to a Million Apps
- July 18, 2019, 19th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- July 9, 2019, Financial Economics Study Group, Wesleyan University
- March 22, 2019, New England Security Day (NESD) 2019, UMass Amherst
T08
Social Debt: Why Software Developers Need to Go Beyond Tech
- February 8, 2019, Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM) Luncheon, Wesleyan University
T07
A Random Walk Down Silicon Alley
- November 15, 2018, Financial Economics Study Group, Wesleyan University
T06
A Privacy Analysis of Cross-device Tracking
- August 18, 2017, 26th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), Vancouver, BC, CA
- February 2, 2017, Current Topics in Privacy Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University
T05
Automated Privacy Requirement Analysis for Mobile Apps
- July 12, 2017, 13th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) (Tutorial and Poster Session), Santa Clara, CA
- June 1, 2017, Privacy Law Scholars Conference 2017, Berkeley, CA
- February 28, 2017, 24th Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA
- January 12, 2017, PrivacyCon 2017, Washington, DC
- November 17, 2016, AAAI Fall Symposium 2016, Arlington, VA
- November 16, 2016, Societal Computing Practicum, Carnegie Mellon University
- October 27, 2016, Current Topics in Privacy Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University
T04
Privacy Implications of Machine Learning
- February 24, 2016, COMS W3410 - Computers and Society, Columbia University
T03
Privee: An Architecture for Automatically Analyzing Web Privacy Policies
- August 6, 2015, CUPS Lunchtime Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University
- February 13, 2015, Google PhD Summit (Poster Session Talk), Google New York City
- December 3, 2014, Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University
- September 17, 2014, Privacy Research Group, New York University
- August 20, 2014, 23rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), San Diego, CA
- June 6, 2014, Privacy Law Scholars Conference 2014, Berkeley, CA
T02
Leveraging Technology to Improve Notice and Choice
- June 27, 2014, FoPNaC 2014, Carnegie Mellon University (Panel Discussion)
T01
When Enough is Enough: Location Tracking, the Fourth Amendment, and Machine Learning
- March 28, 2014, IGERT Distinguished Speaker Series, Columbia University
Research Team
F23+
28. Zachary Liu ‘26
F23+
27. Aleks Jacewicz ‘25
S23+
26. Nishant Aggarwal ‘26
S23
25. Candace Walker ‘26
S23+
24. Harry Yu ‘25
S23
23. Wesley Tan ‘26
F22+
22. Kate Hausladen BA/MA ‘24
S22+
21. Judeley Jean-Charles ‘24
S22+
20. Joe Champeau ‘24
S22+
19. Jocelyn Wang ‘24
S22-F23
18. Justin Casler ‘24
S22+
17. Sophie Eng ‘25
S21+
16. Oliver Wang ‘24
S21–S22
15. Chunyue Ma ‘22
S21–F21
14. Stanley Markman ‘23,
S21
13. Kiryl Beliauski, ‘23
S21–S23
12. Logan Brown ‘23
S21+
11. Daniel Goldelman BA/Ma ‘24
S21+
10. Bella Tassone ‘24
S21–S23
09. Eliza Kuller ‘23
F20–S22
08. Owen Kaplan ‘22
F20
07. Abdallah Salia ‘22
F20–S21
06. Daniel Knopf ‘22
S20–S22
05. Kuba Alicki ‘22
S20
04. Phil Kaelbling ‘22
F19
03. Sarah Jin ‘21
S19–S21
02. David Baraka ‘21
F18-S21
01. Rafael Goldstein ‘21
Awards & Grants
A&G12
Wesleyan University Grants (GISOS and Mathematics and Computer Science Department)
2023 ($17K)
A&G11
Collaborative Research: EAGER: Cross-platform Election Advertising Transparency Initiative ($260K)
With Erika Franklin-Fowler
2022–2024, National Science Foundation
https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2235006
A&G10
Google Research Scholar Award ($60K)
2022–2024, Google
https://research.google/outreach/research-scholar-program/recipients/?category=2022
A&G09
Design, Development, and Testing of a Generalizable Active Privacy Choice Mechanism ($34.9K)
2021–2023, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
https://sloan.org/grant-detail/9631
A&G08
SaTC: CORE: Small: Improving Internet Privacy with Global Privacy Control ($266K)
2020–2024, National Science Foundation
https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2055196
A&G07
Anil Fernando Grant
2023 ($1,750), 2022 ($1,500), 2021 ($950), 2020 ($1,400), 2019 ($900)
A&G06
Allbritton Grant for Support of a Faculty Study Group ($1K)
With Abigail Hornstein and Karl Boulware
2018, Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, Wesleyan University
A&G05
Research Grant ($5K)
2015, Comcast
A&G04
Community Service Award
2014, Computer Science Department, Columbia University
A&G03
Graduate Research Assistant Fellowship
2012–2016, Computer Science Department, Columbia University
A&G02
Research Fellowship
2011-2013, Google/Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
A&G01
Student Fellowship
2005 – 2006, German Academic Exchange Service
Thesis Advisor
TA3
Privacy Choice Mechanisms and the Online Advertising Ecosystem: Can Generalizable Active Privacy Choices and Online Advertising Coexist?
Eliza Kuller ‘23
Spring 2023
TA2
Privacy Pioneer: Creating an Automated Data-Privacy UI for Web Browsers
Owen Kaplan ‘22
Spring 2022
TA1
Don’t Sell Our Data: Exploring CCPA Compliance via Automated Privacy Signal Detection
Kuba Alicki ‘22
Spring 2022
Thesis Reader
TR3
A Comparative Study on Analyses of Browser Fingerprinting
Timothy Stephenson ‘23
Spring 2023
TR2
Fairness & Social Influence Maximization
Schuyler Sloman ‘22
Spring 2022
TR1
All My Friends Are Fake: A Node-By-Node Approach to Social Network Classification
Isaac Jacobs ‘20
Spring 2020
Teaching
T4
COMP 333: Software Engineering
Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
Software engineering is the application of engineering principles to the software development process. Eliciting requirements from stakeholders, designing the architecture of a program, performing usability studies, and testing a codebase are some of the aspects that elevate program development to software engineering. Focusing on web and mobile apps, students in this course will gain expertise in state-of-the-art frontend, backend, and mobile technologies, as well as related tooling. We will also cover the collaborative organization of software projects, software licensing, software business models, and ethical considerations for professional software engineers.
T3
COMP 114: How to Talk to Machines
Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019
How do we tell robots and computers how to do what they do? Getting a handle on this question is the goal of this course. Since telling a device how to do something depends a lot on what that device can do, along the way we will learn a bit about what is “in the box.” We will start with the kind of programming one might use to instruct a robot how to interact with the world around it. That will lead us to the Turing machine, a beautiful mathematical model of a computer. We will adapt that model to something that is closer to how most computer systems today are designed. We will end with an introduction to high-level programming, learning the fundamentals of programming in a language such as Python or Java. The goal of the course is to understand not just programming, but how computers are designed, and how those designs are reflected in the way we program them.
T2
COMP 360: Information Security and Privacy
Spring 2023, Spring 2020, Fall 2018
This course explores principles and practical applications of computer security and privacy. Some of the topics covered include static and dynamic code analysis, secure authentication, privacy enhancing technologies, usable privacy and security, and web tracking. It will also touch upon theoretical areas, such as basic cryptographic concepts as well as differential privacy. The course has the objective to provide students with the conceptual knowledge and technical skills to identify and resolve privacy and security issues in the design, development, and evaluation of information systems.
T1
COMP 4xx: Advanced Information Security and Privacy Research Seminar, Undergraduate
Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
In this research seminar students will work together on a research project that is advancing knowledge in information security and privacy. During their work they will not only gain experience in security and privacy, but in web and mobile app engineering as well. Students will also have the opportunity to co-author a paper to be submitted at a top-tier academic security and privacy venue.
Academic Service
2023
Wesleyan University, A Roadmap for Internet Privacy (Shasha Seminar for Human Concerns)
2022
NSF Review Panel Computer Science and Engineering (October) (CISE)
2022
NSF Review Panel Computer Science and Engineering (April/May) (CISE)
2022
NSF Review Panel and Ad Hoc Review Computer Science and Engineering (CISE)
2021
NSF Review Panel Computer Science and Engineering (CISE)
2019
AAAI 2019 Spring Symposium on Privacy-Enhancing Artificial Intelligence and Language Technologies (PAL)
2018
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW)
2016
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)
2015
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)
2013
IEEE Security & Privacy (S&P)
2013
20th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
2013
1st ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN)
Community Service
F23+
Undergraduate Admission Faculty Ambassador
F23
Generative AI Faculty Ambassador
S23+
Consultant for the Connecticut Office of the Attorney General on the Connecticut Data Privacy Act
F22-S23
Mathematics & Computer Science Faculty Search Committee Co-lead
F22+
Mathematics & Computer Science Website Coordinator
S22+
Computer Science Undergraduate Club Code_Wes Liaison
F19-S21
Computer Science Advisory Committee (CADCOM)
F18+
Computer Science Lecture Series
F18+
Security Advisory Group
F18-S20
Library Committee and Science Library Faculty Committee
F18-S20
Financial Economics Faculty Study Group Co-lead
Associations
2021+
Applied Computational Data Analysis Fellow
https://www.wesleyan.edu/qac/index.html
2021+
Consumer Reports Data Rights Protocol Technical Advisors Board
https://github.com/consumer-reports-digital-lab/data-rights-protocol
2020+
Global Privacy Control Group Co-founder
https://globalprivacycontrol.org/
2020+
W3C Privacy Community Group
https://www.w3.org/community/privacycg/
2019-2021
Governance Research in Artificial Intelligence Leadership (GRAIL) Network
https://grailnetwork.org/
2010+
The State Bar of California (Inactive status)
https://www.calbar.ca.gov/