Hi, I’m Lorrie. Welcome to This Thing.* I’m a computer science and engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon University and director of CyLab and the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory. I spend most of my free time with my husband (Chuck), son (Shane), and daughters (Maya and Nina). I play soccer, walk to work, sew my own dresses with pockets, and try not to embarrass my three teenage/young adult children. My pandemic pet is a bass flute. There is lots more information about what I’m interested in and what I do on my  web site.

*This thing: What you call something when you don’t know or can’t remember what it is called. A term I picked up in graduate school from my dear friends from India.