About Me
In Fall 2026, I will start as an assistant professor at Georgia Tech in the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy.
I am recruiting PhD students during the 2025-2026 application cycle to start in Fall 2026. If you are interested in working with me, please apply to Georgia Tech’s PhD programs in the School of Computer Science or the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy and mention my name in your application.
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, working with Yixin Zou.
I use empirical approaches from computer security and human-computer interaction to understand and mitigate the digital safety risks of sociotechnical systems, including hate, harassment, physical abuse, and financal harm. I am interested in how to protect users’ digital safety when harm can be experienced across multiple platforms and physical spaces. Some research directions I am currently interested in (though definitely not an exhaustive list):
- Digital abuse reporting: Understanding what it means to safely use technology to report on and offline abuse; Developing abuse reporting systems that ensure different definitions of safety (e.g., privacy).
- Safer uses of AI: Identifying the technical and social limitations of AI for creating a safer internet ecosystem; Developing AI tools for high risk offline contexts, such as labor and health.
- Measuring digital safety: Developing the tools and methodology to measure digital safety risk.
Previously, I was a postdoc at Stanford University in the computer science department, where I worked with Zakir Durumeric. I also worked with the Embedded Ethics Program, joint across the Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) and the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, where I taught ethics in computer science classes. I completed my PhD in Computational Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, advised by David Lee. During my PhD I was also advised by Elissa Redmiles as a visiting student at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. I earned a B.S degree in Joint Computer Science and Mathematics from Harvey Mudd College where I was supported by a 4 year President’s Scholarship. My time at Harvey Mudd contributed greatly to my passion for scholarship and teaching.