For many years, we have heard about the shortage of cybersecurity professionals. Despite there being many opportunities to study and work in the cybersecurity space, students are reluctant to pursue further studies or a career in cybersecurity. The perception of cybersecurity as a purely technical domain has put them off…
The purpose of this project is to create a platform for embodied learning that builds the capacity of parents and teachers to interact with young learners’ in ways that helps them understand and acquire the skills necessary for multimodal meaning-making and active social-emotional engagement via rhythm. The objectives of the…
Our project is to provide an AI platform and service that not only collects and produces data insights for the mission driven sector, but formats recommendations specifically for non-data experts. We aim to provide a detailed framework of the issues that nonprofits face in regards to a lack of data…
Intelligent voice assistants and the microphone-equipped Internet of Things devices that support them are very convenient but carry significant privacy risks. Newer and future devices extend these risks by listening all the time — beyond a few specific keywords. The goal of our research is to develop privacy controls for…
Security vulnerabilities pose a grave danger to the integrity of any system because they can undermine almost any protection mechanism organizations put in place to defend themselves against potential attacks. As such, finding vulnerabilities before the software gets deployed or after putting software in production is a critical task in…
Password managers adoptions are becoming the norm these days, but are they also encouraging best practices for its users? Do they use complex and unique passwords or do they just store weak passwords? We discovered that many users ignore password reset notifications. We are motivated to find a path to…
In the United States, people are increasingly turning to online sources to find information about elections. Election information includes everything from mail-in ballot instructions to candidate Facebook page posts. In the U.S., as well as around the world, online misinformation threatens democratic systems. Politicians, technology companies, journalists, and voters all…
Cybersecurity workers are in high demand but short supply. During the Covid-19 crisis, we have seen a greater need for cybersecurity professionals as e-commerce has skyrocketed, universities have shifted online, and millions of Americans are working from home on personal networks. There are also significant diversity challenges to the cybersecurity…
With the smartphone penetration rate reaching over 80% in the US, smartphone settings remain one of the main models for information privacy and security controls. Yet, their usability is largely understudied, especially with respect to the usability impact on underrepresented socio-economic and low-tech groups. In this project we will estimate…
The United States lacks a comprehensive federal privacy regulation and instead relies on industry-specific or state-specific discrete privacy laws. On the state level, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)—which came into effect on January 1, 2020, and became enforceable on July 1, 2020— was enacted to provide enhanced privacy protections…