Professor Kami Vaniea
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. My research interests are in the human factors of security and privacy. The goal of my work is to make security and privacy technologies more accessible for a wide range of users including end users, developers, and system administrators. My recent projects include: developer-centered privacy, dynamic phishing advice, smart speaker bystander privacy, understanding barriers to software update installation, and people's misunderstanding of Twitter's privacy settings.
I am currently:
- Director of the Technology Usability Lab In Privacy and Security (TULIPS)
- Member of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at the University of Waterloo.
- Associated with the Laboratory for Foundations for Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh.
- Associated with Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.
I was previously a Lecturer/Reader in Cyber Security and Privacy at the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics. And before that, an Assistant Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University and a post doctorial researcher in the Media and Information department at Michigan State University. My PhD is from Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department and my thesis looked at the human factors of access control systems.
