Professor and Chair - School of Interactive Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Technology Square Research Bldg
85, 5th St NW, Atlanta, GA 30308
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RESEARCH SCIENTIST
Marie Le Pichon
Marie completed her M.S. in Computer Science at Georgia Tech in 2015 and her B.F.A. in Interactive Design and Game Development from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2010. She will be starting her Ph.D. in the Fall of 2016. Her areas of interest include: privacy, security, regulation, compliance, governance, big data and emerging technology.
FORMER PHD STUDENTS
Jeremy Maxwell (Ph.D. 2013)
Jeremy is currently an IT specialist at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. He received his MS in computer science at NCSU in 2009. Jeremy was the staff assistant to the 2008 NCSU Public Policy Task Force is currently a Security Test Architect at AllscriptsMysis Healthcare Solutions. He received his BS in Computer Science from Florida Gulf Coast University in 2007.
Jessica Young (Ph.D. 2012)
Jessica is currently a Teaching Assistant Professor at NC State, after graduating she was a lecturer and Northeastern University. She received her Bachelor of Science degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from Roanoke College in 2007. She is a former teaching assistant for Dr. Antón's graduate level software engineering course and is now funded on an grant from an NSA subcontractor, focusing on commitments in policies and regulations that must be satisfied in software.
Aaron Massey (Ph.D. 2012)
Aaron received his PhD in December 2012. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Marylind in Baltimore County. He received his M.S. in computer science at NCSU in 2009 and his B.S. in computer engineering from Purdue University in 2003. Aaron is interested in security and privacy policy enforcement. He is funded as an RA on an NSF SoD grant, focusing on system compliance with privacy policy and law. Aaron is a recipient of the 2008 Google Policy Fellowship and worked at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC this past summer. He is NCSU's 2008-2009 Walter H. Wilkinson Graduate Research Ethics Fellow.
Travis Breaux (Ph.D. 2009)
Travis is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. His dissertation focused on how to analyze regulations to specify legally compliant requirements for information systems.
Jim Yuill (Ph.D. 2006)
Jim is currently self-employed. He was co-advised by Dr. Mladen Vouk. Jim's dissertation research focused on security; he is applying military theory to incident response. Specifically, he addressed the problem of locating compromised devices after an intrusion is detected.
Qingfeng (Frank) He (Ph.D. 2005)
Qingfeng is currently Director of Engineering at FOLIOfn. His dissertation focused on the application of requirements engineering techniques to specify access control policies.
Thomas A. Alspaugh (Ph.D. 2002)
Thomas is currently a Software Engineering Researcher in Washington DC. Upon graduation he accepted a position as an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine. His dissertation focused on scenario management strategies to support requirements engineering activities.
Paul Otto
Paul is currently a cybersecurity and privacy lawyer at Hogan Lovells. He is ABD in CS from NC State. He received a J.D. from Duke Law School in May 2009. He received his BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2004 and his MS in Computer Science from NCSU in 2007. He is interested in privacy and security, is a member of ThePrivacyPlace.org research group. Paul is currently a law clerk with Chief Justice Durham of the Utah Supreme Court. Paul is a recipient of the 2008 Google Policy Fellowship and worked at the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington, DC this past summer.
Ramya Gopalan
Ramya is currently a senior software engineer at RSA. She passed her PhD qualifying exam in April 2011. Ramya earned her Bachelor of Engineering degree from the Coimbatore Institute of Technology(CIT).
FORMER MS STUDENTS
Ryan A. Carter
Ryan is currently on the Information Technology Faculty at Mayland Community College in Spruce Pine, NC. He successfully defended his M.S. thesis in April of 2001. His thesis work, funded by ABB, focused on evolutionary prototyping process models. After two semesters as the teaching assistant for CSC 310 (Software Engineering), he served as the course instructor during the summer of 2000. Ryan graduated in June of 2001; he accepted a position at IBM in Research Triangle Park.
John H. Dempster
John is a Principle Consultant/Industry Lead at Business and Decision. He successfully defended his M.S. thesis in May of 2000. He develop conflict resolution techniques for the Goal-Based Requirements Analysis Method. He accepted a position at Bridgepoint Software.
Gurleen Kaur
Gurleen is currently a Strategy Analyst at JP Morgan Chase. Gurleen graduated with her MS in May of 2009. She has a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering in 2004 from National Institute of Technology in Jalandhar, India and received an M.S. in Software Engineering from Thapar University in Patiala, India in 2006.
William Stufflebeam
William is an Independent Consultant in Raleigh, NC. He received his BS in Business Management from NCSU in 2001 and his MS in CS in 2004. He was a founding member of ThePrivacyPlace.org research group.
Hema Srikanth
Hema is currently a Secure Development Lifecycle Professional at Sterling Commerce, an IBM company. She received her PhD at NC State in 2006. For her M.S. thesis she developed a software process model, called ADAPT. Her work was funded by the NCSU E-Commerce Learning Center.
Matthew Vail
Matt is currently an Engineering Manager at Google in SF. successfully defended his M.S. thesis in April of 2006 and is now a Ph.D. student in the computer science department at U. Mass Amherst. He recevied his BS in CS from NCSU in 2004. He focused on privacy policy analysis, analyzing health care privacy policies, and created a survey instrument to evaluate various representations of privacy policies. Matt is a recipient of the Fall 2004 CISCO Systems Information Assurance Scholarship. He is a member of ThePrivacyPlace.org research group.
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FORMER RESEARCH SCIENTIST
Laurie Jones
Laurie is currently a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University where she is funded as an NSF Ph.D. Fellow. In 2006, whe completed her interdisciplinary computer science at Mills College in California. She received her BA in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001. As a membr of ThePrivacyPlace.org, her research focuses on digital identies, education, and regulatory compliance. She was funded on two NSF ITR grants while at NCSU as well as by the CRA DMP program.
FORMER MCS STUDENTS
Janvi Badlaney
Janvi is currently a Principal Software Engineer at RSA. Janvi completed her MCS student in May of 2006. She has a B.S. in computer science from Bombay University and has worked at IBM and Sun Microsystems. Janvi was a member of ThePrivacyPlace.Org.
Neha Jain
Neha completed her MCS in May of 2006. She received her B.S. in Computer Science in 2005. Neha is a recipient of the Fall 2003 CISCO Systems Information Assurance Scholarship and the 2004 Google Anita Borg Undergraduate Scholarship. She was a member of ThePrivacyPlace.org research group and plans to attend medical school.
Jonathan Lewis
Jonathan is currently a Senior Systems Analyst at Westat. He has a B.S. in computer science from North Carolna State University and was funded on an NSF ITR grant, focusing on compliance with privacy policies and law.
Varun Sharma
Varun is currently a Principal Director at Strategy Ampersand, part of the PwC network. Varun completed his MCS in December of 2006. He received his undergraduate degree in computer science from University of Pune.
Devon F. Siege
Devon completed her MCS coursework in August of 2000. While at NC State she was funded on a research grant from BellSouth Telecommunications in Atlanta, focusing on requirements traceability and process improvement. She accepted a position at Lucent Technologies.
FORMER CRA DMP STUDENTS
Roksolana Antonyuk
Lana graduated from the Clarke College in Iowa where she double majored in computer science and mathematics. During the summer of 2001 she participated in the CRA (Computing Research Association) Distributed Mentor Project. Her summer project was the design and implementation of a database to support the SMaRT (Scenario Management and Requirements Tool).
Laura Bode
Laura is an undergraduate computer science major at Covenant College in Georgia. During the summer of 2002 she is participating in the CRA (Computing Research Association) Distributed Mentor Project. Laura's research focuses on episode management within the SMaRT (Scenario Management and Requirements Tool).
Neha Jain
Neha is a senior in the computer science ABM (Advanced Bachelors Masters) program. She is interested in privacy policy specification and enforcement. Neha is a recipient of the Fall 2003 CISCO Systems Information Assurance Scholarship and the 2004 Google Anita Borg Undergraduate Scholarship. During the summer of 2004 she participated in the CRA (Computing Research Association) Distributed Mentor Project. She is a member of ThePrivacyPlace.org research group.
Laurie Jones
Laurie is currently a Ph.D. student at CMU, working with Dr. Latanya Sweeney. In December of 2006, she completed her M.S. in interdisciplinary computer science at Mills College in California. She received her BA in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001. As a membr of ThePrivacyPlace.org, her research focuses on biometric technologies and digital identities.
Angela Reese
Angela graduated from the University of Dayton in Ohio in 2002 where she double majored in computer science and mathematics. During the summer of 2001 she participated in the CRA (Computing Research Association) Distributed Mentor Project. For her summer project she conducted a goal-based analysis of health care industry privacy policies; this work led to an RE'02 conference paper.
Marlies Santos
Marlies is currently a Masters student at Columbia. She received a BS from the University of Florida in 2009. During the summer of 2007, she was a member of ThePrivacyPlace.org, working on various privacy policy & legal compliance related projects.
Ha To
Ha graduated from Santa Clara University in California in 2001. During the summer of 2000 she particpated in the CRA (Computing Research Association) Distributed Mentor Project. She spent the summer performing a goal-based analysis of electronic commerce privacy policies with Thomas Alspaugh and Annie Antón.
FORMER UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Jesse Beaumont
Alan Booth
Kevin Childs (Honors Thesis)
Sam Dengler (Honors Thesis)
Jack Frink
Jack graduated with B.S. in December 2004. Jack recently received an Entrepreneurship Award from nSoftware in recognition of his Flesh tool. He was a member of ThePrivacyPlace.org research group.
Chris McClave
John Gemma
Bobby Noell
Shawn Page
Hiren Patel
Alton Patrick
Shane Smith
Matt Vail (Honors Thesis)
Paul Zaremba
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Last Updated: April 2016