Hello! I’m Smirity
I am a 4th year Ph.D. candidate in the Information Sciences program at UIUC, School of Information Sciences. I do interdisciplinary research in Usable Security and Privacy (USP) and Privacy Policies. I am particularly interested in exploring digital ad privacy and safety perceptions of vulnerable and understudied population groups. My CV is available here.
Selected Honors and Awards
- Google CS Research Mentorship Program Mentee (CSRMP 2021)
- IAPP Privacy Award (2021, 2019)
- John R. Weitzel Memorial Award Scholar 2019 for Information Systems Research
- Information Management Faculty Engagement Scholar (IMFES) merit fellowship (2017)
Updates:
- Jan 2024 Re-visiting Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) in Bochum to continue working with Dr. Yixin Zou
- Dec 2023 Successfully defend dissertation proposal on "Exploring online privacy, safety, and trust perceptions of at-risk users towards targeted and deceptive ads on social media platforms."
- Sep 2023 Virtually attending Grace Hopper Conference, 2023
- Sep 2023 Received NSF PrivaCI Fellow grant award to attend 2023 PrivaCI Symposium held at York University in Toronto
- Aug 2023 Finished 3-month summer internship at Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) with Dr. Yixin Zou
- Aug 2023 Presenting two papers at the Nineteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2023)
- July 2023 Attended my first PETS conference in person at Lausanne, Switzerland
- May 2023 Started summer research internship at Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) with Dr. Yixin Zou