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Congratulations to Dr. Wisniewski for being selected to attend the inaugural CRA Leadership Academy for Faculty (https://cra.org/cra-leadership-academy-for-faculty/). The CRA Leadership Academy cultivates future leaders in computing and computing research through a one-day in-person workshop and follow-up virtual meetings among the Leadership Academy cohort.  Participants will learn new skills and perspectives on leadership,...

Congratulations to our Ph.D. student Zainab Agha on passing her Qualifying Exam (QE) for Ph.D. in Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. The Qualifying Exam is the second milestone in the Ph.D. program in which the Graduate Committee evaluates the literature review, research progress, and proposed dissertation studies of the student....

Congratulations to Dr. Katie Park for presenting her Paper at WWW '23 Companion: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023. Towards Automated Detection of Risky Images Shared by Youth on Social Media Jinkyung Park, Joshua Gracie, Ashwaq Alsoubai, Gianluca Stringhini, Vivek Singh, Pamela Wisniewski Abstract: With the growing ubiquity...

Congratulations to our Ph.D. Candidate Mamtaj Akter on her CHI LBW paper acceptance. It Takes a Village: A Case for Including Extended Family Members in the Joint Oversight of Family-based Privacy and Security for Mobile Smartphones Mamtaj Akter, Leena Alghamdi, Jess Kropczynski, Heather Lipford, Pamela Wisniewski Abstract: We conducted a...

Congratulations to STIR Lab PhD student Zainab Agha on co-organizing an accepted workshop at CHI titled "Privacy Interventions and Education (PIE): Encouraging Privacy Protective Behavioral Change Online". Building on the foundational conversations of previous privacy workshops that identify key privacy issues and consequences, this workshop aims to take privacy research...

Congratulations to STIR Lab undergraduate students Kelsey Miu and Maria Sophia Piper on presenting their research titled "Co-Designing User Personas and a Simulation for Evaluating Adolescent Online Safety Interventions" at the Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Fair (VURF), mentored by PhD student Zainab Agha and Jinkyung Park! The Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Fair provides an...

Congratulations to our STIR Lab student Naulsberry Jean Baptiste for successfully defending her Honors Undergraduate Thesis!  Her thesis title is "Teens vs. Tech: Using an Asynchronous Remote Community Environment to Explore Adolescents' Online Safety Perspectives." We are very proud of Baptiste for successfully completing her thesis and wish her the...

Congratulations to STIR lab Ph.D. student Ashwaq Alsoubai on passing her Qualifying Exam (QE) for Ph.D. in Computer Science at Vanderbilt University! The Qualifying Exam is the second milestone in the Ph.D. program in which the Graduate Committee evaluates the literature review, research progress, and proposed dissertation studies of the...

Why is co-managing mobile online safety, security, and privacy among families important but challenging to implement? Dr. Pamela Wisniewski and Mamtaj Akter were invited to the MorningLine show on News Channel 5 to discuss this topic with Nick Beres. Please check out their discussion at this link. From left Nick Beres, Mamtaj Akter, and...

Congratulations to STIR lab student Xavier Caddle on passing his Qualifying Review (QR) for Ph.D. in Computer Science this Fall! The Qualifying Review is the first milestone in the Ph.D. program in which the Graduate Committee evaluates the research and coursework progress of the student. Caddle continues to work on...

Congratulations to the Senior Design Team for delivering their final presentation on the Carebit project. They designed and developed Carebit v2, an innovative mobile app that allows people to remotely monitor their loved ones' health information via Fitbit API. This app also ensures caregivees' personal privacy by allowing them to restrict...

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski for getting featured by the Vanderbilt School of Engineering. Dr. Wisniewski shared some effective strategies for parents to limit their children's screen time during the holidays. Check out this link to learn about those strategies: http://bit.ly/3tTaFRF