Grants

External Sources

  • Sloan Foundation, $249K, Co-PI, Looking at You, with Kristin Marting, HERE Arts Center, 2022
  • National Science Foundation, $1.2M, PI, Understanding the Impact of Privacy Interventions on the Online Publishing EcosystemNSF proposal, with Yi Chen, Cristian M. Borcea, and Cristobal Cheyre, 2022
  • MacArthur Foundation, $20K, PI, Award No. 22-2203-156318-TPI, 2022
  • University of Pennsylvania Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition (CTIC) and the Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences, $10K, Co-PI, A Field Experiment on the Impact of Ad-Blocking Technologies, with Cristobal Cheyre (PI), 2021
  • NortonLifeLock, $65K, Co-PI, Public Privacy Protective Behaviors, with Lorrie Cranor (PI), 2020
  • Sloan Foundation, $333K, PI, The Economic Impact of Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2015-2017
  • National Science Foundation, $595K, PI, SBE: Medium: Collaborative: Understanding and Exploiting Visceral Roots of Privacy and Security Concerns, with Jeff Hancock, 2015-2018
  • DARPA, $4.5M, Co-PI, Personalized Privacy Assistants for the Internet of Things and Big Data, with Norman Sadeh (PI), Lorrie Cranor, Lujo Bauer, and Anupam Datta, 2015-2018
  • Google Research Award, PI, Developing a new framework and tool for diagnosing privacy personas, with Eyal Peer, 2015-2016
  • National Science Foundation, $620K, PI, IBSS: Visceral targeting: Using personalized face composites for implicit persuasion and targeted marketing, 2013-2019
  • National Science Foundation, $3.75M, Co-PI, TWC SBE: Towards effective web privacy notice and choice: a multi-disciplinary perspective, with Norman Sadeh (PI), Lorrie Cranor, Travis Breaux, Noah Smith, Joel R. Reidenberg, and Aleecia McDonald, 2013-2019
  • National Science Foundation, $380K, PI, TWC SBES: Medium: Collaborative: Evolutionary Approaches to Privacy and Information Security, with Jeff Hancock, 2013-2018
  • NSA/CMU Science of Security Lablet, $1.9M, Co-PI, USE User Security Behavior, with Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Cranor, and Rahul Telang, 2012-2017
  • US Department of Homeland Security s Cyber Security Research and Development Broad Agency Announcement, $3M, Co-PI, Understanding and Disrupting the Economics of Cybercrime, with Nicolas Christin (PI), Ross Anderson, and Tyler Moore, 2012-2015
  • National Science Foundation, $2.2M, Co-PI, Census Research Node: Data Integration, Online Data Collection, and Privacy Protection for Census 2020, with William Eddy (PI), Stephen Fienberg (PI), Joseph B. Kadane, Rebecca Nugent, 2011-2016
  • Rose Foundation Google Buzz Settlement s Privacy Grants, Selected by Settlement Plaintiffs, Defendant, and Judge, $350K, PI, Privacy and Behavior, with Lorrie Cranor, 2011
  • National Science Foundation, $2.7M, PI, Nudging Users Towards Privacy, with Lorrie Cranor and Norman Sadeh, 2010-2015
  • Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, $100K, Co-PI, Usability Analysis of Digital Forensic, with Lorrie Cranor (PI), Nicolas Christin, and Rahul Telang, 2010
  • I3P privacy project, $175K, Co-PI, Aligning Empirically Validated Privacy Perceptions and Behaviors with a Dynamic Privacy Policy Landscape, with Travis Breaux (PI) and Rahul Telang, 2010-2012
  • National Science Foundation s Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST), $85K, PI, Privacy Concerns and Information Disclosure: An Illusion of Control Hypothesis [continuation], 2010
  • SBO Support Channel (Strategic Basic Research, IWT-Flanders), $320,000, Co-PI, SPION: Security and Privacy for Online Social Networks, with Bart Preneel (PI) et al, 2010-2013
  • Google Focused Research Award, $400K, Co-PI, Privacy Nudges, with Lorrie Cranor (PI) and Norman Sadeh, 2010
  • National Science Foundation s Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST), $65K, PI, Privacy Concerns and Information Disclosure: An Illusion of Control Hypothesis, 2009
  • National Science Foundation, $3.2M, Core Faculty Member, IGERT: Usable Privacy and Security, with Lorrie Cranor (PI), 2009-2014
  • Microsoft Corporation, $60K, Co-PI, Beyond Search: Semantic Computing and Internet Economics, with Lorrie Cranor (PI), 2008
  • National Science Foundation IIS, $387K, PI, Evaluating and Enhancing Privacy and Information Sharing in Online Social Networks, 2007-2010
  • National Aeronautics & Space Administration unsolicited BlueSky proposal, $9K, Study Resource Team Member, Composing the Right Mix of Humans & Technology for Lunar Surface Exploration, with Dr. Kenneth M. Ford (PI), Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, 2006-2007
  • NET Institute Summer Grant, $3M, Co-PI, What is It To You? A Survey of Online Privacy Concerns and Risks, with Janice Tsai, Christina Fong, and Lorrie Cranor (PI), 2006
  • Carnegie Mellon University CyLab and Humboldt Foundation Transcoop Award, $36K, PI, Attention Economics in Information-rich Environments, with Prof. Sarah Spiekermann (Co-PI), Humboldt University, Berlin, 2005-2008
  • National Science Foundation Cyber Trust, $1.6M, Co-PI, Preventing Semantic Attacks, with Sven Dietrich, Julie Downs, Jason Hong, Norman Sadeh, and Lorrie Cranor (PI), 2005-2008
  • National Aeronautics & Space Administration, Human & Robotic Technology Broad Agency Announcement 04-02 Award, $14M, Team Leader, End-to-end Mission Modeling and Simulation Environment, with Dr. Maarten Sierhuis (PI), 2005-2006

Internal Sources

  • Carnegie Mellon University CyLab, Seed Funding, $13,520, PI, Standing the Test of Time: Long Term Economic Impact of Privacy Regulation, with Ryan Steed, 2022
  • Carnegie Mellon University CyLab, Seed Funding, $32K, PI, The Impact of Ad-Blocking and Anti-Tracking on Consumers' Online Behavior and Welfare, with Jeremy Thomas, Daphne Chang, Cristobal Cheyre, Florian Schaub, Alisa Frik, Li Jiang, 2020
  • Carnegie Mellon University CyLab, Seed Funding, $28K, PI, The Impact of Online Social Networks on Firms' Hiring Practices, 2010
  • Carnegie Mellon University CyLab, Seed Funding, $28K, PI, The Evolutionary Roots of Privacy and Security Concerns, 2010
  • CMU-Portugal ICTI, Co-PI, Weaving Together Technology Innovation with Human and Policy Considerations, with Norman Sadeh (PI), 2008
  • Carnegie Mellon University CyLab, $185K, Co-PI, Privacy Decision Making, with Lorrie Cranor (PI), 2008-2009
  • Carnegie Mellon University CyLab, Seed Funding, $28K, PI, Personal Information Revelation in Online Social Networks: Cross-cultural Effects, 2007
  • Carnegie Mellon University CyLab, Seed Funding, $31.5K, PI, Personal Information Security and Online Social Networks, 2006
  • Carnegie Mellon University CyLab, $204K, Co-PI, Supporting Trust Decisions, with Lorrie Cranor (PI), 2005-2008
  • Carnegie Mellon University Berkman Faculty Development Award, $9K, PI, Understanding the Dichotomy: An Experimental Approach to Privacy Attitudes and Behavior, 2003-2004
  • UC Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems, Dean's Mellon Fellowship for Information Economics, with Dean Hal Varian, 2002
  • UC Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems, Dean's Mellon Fellowship for Information Economics, with Dean Hal Varian, 1999
  • Trinity College Foundation HPC Fellowship, with Dr. Patrick Waldron, 1998
  • TACIS-ACE Scholarship, with Prof. Hartmut Lehmann, 1997