News
September 2026: "Automatic Transmission" has received a flurry of attention. Journalists from Consumer Reports, The Verge, and Northeastern University Global News interviewed my co-authors and me for articles about "Automatic Transmission: An Empirical Study of Data Privacy in the Connected Vehicle Ecosystem." Additional articles and blog posts were written by Ars Technica, AUTO Connected Car News, Road & Track, and Schneier on Security.
August 2026: Our paper "Automatic Transmission: An Empirical Study of Data Privacy in the Connected Vehicle Ecosystem was accepted at IMC 2026. Co-first author on this work. Nicole Zagson made a fantastic website for this project.
April 2026: I was selected as a Trainee Fellowship as part of the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program, Platform for Exchange and Allocation of Resources. This fellowship provides up to two years of funding and focuses on interdisciplinary work to integrate applicable findings/theories on emerging technologies into business, policy, and social science into ethical engineering design and practice.
January-May 2026: TA for CS4700 (Network Fundamentals).
March 2026: Our paper "It's not a representation of me": Examining Accent Bias and Digital Exclusion in Synthetic AI Voice Services paper was referenced in the Wired article titled "Summon This AI Agent by Speaking Its Wake Word Mid-Phone Call".
June 2025: Our paper "It's not a representation of me": Examining Accent Bias and Digital Exclusion in Synthetic AI Voice Services was accepted at ACM FAccT 2025.
April 2025: Our paper Promises, Promises: Understanding Claims Made in Social Robot Consumer Experiences was accepted at CHI 2025.
May 2024: Presented Investigating the Datafication of Your Car at IEEE Security 8th Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro '24).
September 2023: Began my PhD in Computer Science at Northeastern University with the Khoury Distinguished Fellowship.
Publications
"Automatic Transmission: An Empirical Study of Data Privacy in the Connected Vehicle Ecosystem Co-first author. Will be presented at ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2026.
"It's not a representation of me": Examining Accent Bias and Digital Exclusion in Synthetic AI Voice Services was presented at ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) 2025.
Promises, Promises: Understanding Claims Made in Social Robot Consumer Experiences was presented at ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2025.
Investigating the Datafication of Your Car was presented at IEEE Security 8th Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro '24.)