HoTSoS 2021: Poster Co-Chairs

Meet the HoTSoS 2021 Team:

Poster Co-Chairs

Welcome our "Poster Co-Chairs" for the upcoming HoTSoS Symposium Khir Henderson (Morgan State University) and Aleecia McDonald (CMU)!

About the Chairs

Khir Henderson is a doctoral candidate at Morgan State University located in Baltimore, Maryland. His current research is on the cybersecurity of embedded systems and the Internet of Things.  He designs and develops sustainable and scalable architectures to protect major security vulnerabilities in our nation's critical infrastructures. 

Aleecia McDonald, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of the Practice, based at the CMU Silicon Valley campus. She focuses on the public policy issues of Internet privacy, including user expectations for privacy tools, behavioral economics and mental models of privacy, and the efficacy of industry self regulation. She co-chaired the WC3’s Tracking Protection Working Group, which was an effort to establish international standards for a Do Not Track mechanism that users can enable to request enhanced privacy online.

Aleecia’s decade of experience working in software startups adds a practical focus to her academic work, and she was a Senior Privacy Researcher for Mozilla prior to working as Director of Privacy at Stanford. Her findings have been featured in media outlets such as the Washington Post, Ars Technica, and NPR. She has presented findings in testimony to the California Assembly, and contributed to testimony before the United States Senate and the Federal Trade Commission. 

 

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