Serge Egelman

Biography

Serge Egelman, PhD, is Senior Research Scientist, Research Mentor, and Group Lead for the Usable Privacy and Security group at ICSI. He is also a Research Scientist in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley and Co-founder and Chief Scientist of AppCensus, Inc., a company that performs on-demand privacy analysis of mobile apps for compliance purposes. 

Dr. Egelman’s research focuses on the intersection of privacy, computer security, and human-computer interaction, with the specific aim of better understanding how people make decisions surrounding their privacy and security and then creating data-driven improvements to systems and interfaces. His work has helped to improve web browser security warnings, authentication on social networking websites, and privacy on mobile devices. Seven of his research publications have received awards at the ACM CHI conference, the top venue for human-computer interaction research. His research on privacy on mobile platforms has received the Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies, the USENIX Security Distinguished Paper Award, and privacy research awards from two different European data protection authorities, CNIL and AEPD. Dr. Egelman has testified before the U.S. Senate, his research has been cited in numerous lawsuits and regulatory actions, and his work has also been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Wired, CNET, NBC, and CBS. 

Previously, he was a scientist at NIST, a postdoctoral researcher at Brown University, and a research intern at Xerox Parc and Microsoft. He received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University.

Publications

Selected Honors & Awards

• Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies
• USENIX Security Distinguished Paper Award
• CMU CyLab Distinguished Alumni Award
• INFORMS Best Published Paper Award
• AEPD Emilio Aced Personal Data Protection Research Award
• CNIL-INRIA Privacy Award
• SIGCHI Honorable Mention Award (7x)
• Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) Impact Award
• SOUPS Best Paper Award
• Winner: Tor Graphical User Interface Design Competition

Selected Leadership Activities

• ACM Senior Member
• Advisory Board Member, Electronic Privacy Information Center (epic.org)

Areas of Expertise

• Cybersecurity for Systems, Networks, and Cloud Platforms
• Cognitive Security: Human Factors, Influence, and Resilience
• Threat Intelligence, Malware Detection, and Cyber Defense
• Usable Security and Privacy by Design
• Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) and Interaction Design
• User Experience (UX), Usability, and Interface Design
• Wearable Computing, Ubiquitous, and Pervasive Systems
• Social Media Platforms, Online Communities, and Digital Culture
• AI Ethics, Responsible AI, and Governance of Technology
• Technology Policy, Standards, and Global Governance

ICSI Activity