Lorrie Faith Cranor

Director and Bosch Distinguished Professor in Security and Privacy Technologies, CyLab Security and Privacy Institute FORE Systems University Professor, Computer Science and Engineering & Public Policy

Bio

 is the Director and Bosch Distinguished Professor in Security and Privacy Technologies of  and the FORE Systems University Professor of  and of  at . She directs the  and co directs the . In 2016 she served as  at the US Federal Trade Commission. She is also a co-founder of  She has authored over 250 research papers on online privacy, usable security, and other topics. She has played a key role in building the usable privacy and security research community, having co-edited the seminal book  (O'Reilly 2005) and founded the ). She also co-founded the . She was elected to the ACM CHI Academy, named an ACM Fellow for her contributions to usable privacy and security research and education, named an IEEE Fellow for her contributions to privacy engineering, and named an AAAS Fellow. She received the 2018 ACM CHI Social Impact Award, the 2018 International Association of Privacy Professionals Privacy Leadership Award, and (with colleagues) the 2018 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice. She was previously a researcher at AT&T-Labs Research and taught in the  at . She holds a doctorate in Engineering and Policy from Washington University in St. Louis.