- His research has been credited for influencing the design of products at companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook.
- Known for earlier research contributions in areas such as scheduling, supply chain management, multi-agent systems, automated trading, and semantic web technologies.
- Holds several leadership roles including Co-Director of the Privacy Engineering Program, Lead PI of the Usable Privacy Policy Project, Lead PI of the Personalized Privacy Assistant Project, Co-Founder of the Societal Computing PhD Program, Co-Founder of the MBA Track in Technology Strategy and Product Management, Co-Founder of the MS in Product Management Program, Director of the Mobile Commerce Lab, and Director of the E-Supply Chain Management Lab.
Research Experience
- A successful entrepreneur who served as the founding CEO of Wombat Security Technologies until its acquisition by Proofpoint.
- In the late 1990s, he was the Chief Scientist for the European Union's e-Commerce initiative, which covered all pan-European research in cybersecurity and privacy, as well as major related public policy initiatives.
Background
Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on AI, ML, HCI, Language Technologies and public policy, including significant contributions in domains such as privacy, cybersecurity, mobile and the Internet of Things.
Miscellany
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