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	Lorrie Faith Cranor Director and Bosch Distinguished Professor in Security and Privacy Technologies, CyLab Security and Privacy Institute FORE Systems Professor, Computer Science and Engineering & Public Policy Director, Collaboratory Against Hate: Research and Action Center Director, CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory Co-director, MSIT-Privacy Engineering masters program
Contact	mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University, CIC 2107, 4720 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 office: CIC 2107 (4720 Forbes Ave [directions]) phone: 412-268-7534 (I rarely check voice mail) email: lorrie AT cmu DOT edu administrative assistant: Priyanka Kochhar, 412 268 1416 pkochha2@andrew.cmu.edu How should you address me? Professor Cranor and Dr. Cranor are both fine if this is a professional context where titles are used. Outside of professional contexts you may use Dr. Cranor or Ms. Cranor. Please do not address me as Mrs. Cranor in any context. If we're not using titles, then Lorrie is just fine. If you can't decide whether to be formal or not, Professor Lorrie will also do. I use my full name Lorrie Faith Cranor in my publications, but no need to include my middle name elsewhere. Pronouns: she/her. Important information for prospective students and visitors
Research focus	Usable privacy and security, technology and public policy - See the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory website for more information or watch a short video about my research
Highlights	Illustrating Privacy Engineering Concepts with Potty Talk - 20-minute talk I presented at the 2021 Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR) My IEEE Security and Privacy podcast with Bob Blakely - Over the Rainbow 2019 McKelvey School of Engineering Alumni Achievement Award video Lots of videos and news articles Advice for women in computer science: An interview I did with students from the CMU women@scs organization Tales from an Accidental Computer Science Professor - 60 minute talk plus questions, Indiana University, February 8, 2018 Read about CMU research on usable and secure passwords CBS Sunday Morning video featuring me and my password dress - also text version The now-famous password dress, the companion security blanket quilt that was featured in Science Magazine, the CNET article, password chairs and more and you can order the fabric and ties and read about our passwords research My Tech@FTC blog post Time to rethink mandatory password changes Watch my 5-minute Davos video on Personal Privacy Assistants and the Internet of Things, and read my trip report Check out our Privacy Illustrated website featuring illustrations of privacy from kindergartners through adults A short piece I wrote for MIT Technology Review about how difficult it is to protect your privacy The CUPS Lab has openings for PhD students and postdocs with a background in usable security or privacy, undergraduate research assistants, as well as research programmers and CMU students who want part-time programming jobs We are now accepting applications for the Fall 2020 class of our MSIT-Privacy Engineering masters program Check out our search engine for comparing bank privacy policies My TEDxCMU 2014 talk on passwords (as featured on Delta Airlines Inflight Entertainment) A 60-minute presentation I gave in Fall 2013: Computers, Quilts, and Privacy
Current projects	usable privacy choices, Usable Privacy Policy Project, usable and secure passwords, privacy decision making, user-controllable security and privacy, usable cyber trust indicators
Previous research	anti-phishing, P3P, electronic voting, and security vulnerabilities in movie distribution
Publications	See Publications section of my resume (sorted by publication type) CUPS website publication list (sorted by topic, includes other peoples' publications as well) My Google Scholar page My ACM Digital Library author page My dblp page
CMU affiliations	Software and Societal Systems Department (S3D) in the School of Computer Science Engineering and Public Policy department in the College of Engineering CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS) (director) in CyLab MSIT-Privacy Engineering masters program (co-director) Ph.D. Program in Societal Computing Electrical & Computer Engineering Department (affiliate faculty) Human-Computer Interaction Institute (affiliate faculty) Heinz College (affiliate faculty) STUDIO for Creative Inquiry (fellow and member of Deep Lab)
Other affiliations	Computing Research Association Board of Directors, 2019-2022 ELATE Fellow, 2014-15 Electronic Frontier Foundation Board of Directors, 2007-2015 The Future of Privacy Forum Advisory Board, 2009-2015, 2017- Deep Lab, Founding member Wombat Security Technologies, co-founder AT&T Labs-Research, 1996 - 2003
Teaching	17-734 / 17-334 [previously 08-534 / 08-734 ] / 5-436 / 5-836 / 19-534 / 19-734 Usable Privacy and Security SP22, SP21, SP20, SP19, SP18, SP17, SP15, SP14, FA11, FA09, SP08, SP07, SP06 17-733 /17-333 [previously 8-533 / 8-733] / 19-608 / 95-818: Privacy Policy, Law, and Technology FA15,FA14, FA13, FA10,FA08, FA07, FA05, FA04, SP04 8-602: Current Topics in Privacy Seminar FA13, FA14, FA15, SP17, SP18 8-606 Privacy by Design Workshop / 8-607 Privacy by Design Practicum FA17, Summer15, Summer14 15-290 / 17-290 / 19-211: Special Topics: Computers and Society SP07, SP06, SP05 EPP Undergraduate Project SP09 Carrying Capacity, SP10 Privacy, SP11 Green Printing, SP12 Emergency Messaging with Social Media COS PhD seminar SP06, FA05, SP05, FA04 08-709 Privacy Technology (MSIT eBusiness Program) SP15, SP14, SP13, SP12, SP11, SP10, SP09, SP08, SP07, SP06
Students	Current PhD Students: Elijah Bouma-Sims (Societal Computing), Kyle Crichton (EPP), Andy Gallardo (Societal Computing), Sarah Pearman (Societal Computing) Graduated PhD Students (advisor): Rebecca Balebako (EPP PhD 2014), Cristian Bravo Lillo (EPP PhD 2014), Jessica Colnago (Societal Computing PhD 2021), Serge Egelman (COS PhD 2009), Pardis Emami-Naeini (Societal Computing PhD 2020), Hana Habib (Societal Computing PhD 2021), Patrick Kelley (COS PhD 2013, co-advisor w/ N. Sadeh), Saranga Komanduri (Societal Computing PhD 2016), Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (COS PhD 2009), Pedro Leon (EPP PhD 2014), Abby Marsh (Societal Computing PhD 2018), Aleecia McDonald (EPP PhD 2010), Rob Reeder (CSD PhD 2008), Rich Shay (COS PhD 2015), Steve Sheng (EPP PhD 2009), Manya Sleeper (Societal Computing PhD 2016), Josh Tan (Societal Computing PhD 2020, co-advisor w/ L. Bauer), Janice Tsai (EPP PhD 2009), Blase Ur (Societal Computing PhD 2016), Kami Vaniea (CSD PhD 2012, co-advisor w/ L. Bauer)
Consulting	I have consulted for companies and non-profits on privacy policies, P3P, usable privacy and security, and technology policy. I have also served as an expert witness in patent litigation and in privacy cases, and in cases challenging the constitutionality of Internet harmful-to-minors laws, including the ACLU's successful challenge to the 1998 Children's Online Protection Act. I currently do expert witness consulting through Harbor Labs.
Personal	I spend most of my free time with my husband (Chuck), son (Shane), and daughters (Maya and Nina). I walk to work, practice yoga, take lots of photos, and design and create quilts. I also serve as an elected election judge, SciTech PTO President, and Dynamoms women's soccer commissioner.

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