About Me

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, working with Yixin Zou.

In Fall 2026, I will start as an assistant professor at Georgia Tech in the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy.

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.