Elizabeth Stobert

Elizabeth Stobert is an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science and the co-director of the HCI Masters program. She directs the SPIRL lab and does research in usable security and privacy, looking at how research on human cognition can be applied to improve the design of security systems.

 

 

 

Post-Doctoral

Christine Murad

Christine is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the School of Computer Science at Carleton University, and a Research Associate in the Systems Design Engineering department at the University of Waterloo. Her research interests are in the design of conversational voice interfaces and the development of design heuristics and tools for VUI design. Her current work is on Usable Privacy for voice-based IoT agents for older adults.

 

 

 

PhD

Aniqa Alam

Aniqa Alam is a PhD candidate in computer science. Her research interests are in culture and usable security, and her masters thesis examined how culture affects password sharing in Bangladesh.

Paola Marmorato

Paola is currently working on her PhD in computer science. She has a background in clinical psychology and holds a master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). For her master’s thesis at SPIRL, she studied older adults’ privacy and security practices in online dating. Her research interests focus on usable security and privacy for aging in place, as well as the intersections of psychology and computer science.

 

 

Master

Michaela Valiquette

Michaela is pursuing her Master’s in HCI. Her research interests include usable security and privacy in designs.

 

 

 

 


Ana Andrushchak

Anastasiya (Ana) is a master’s student in computer science. She is currently researching the mental models of containers and how it impacts security. Her research interests are security and the cloud.

 

 

 

Ruchi Swami

Ruchi is working on her Masters of HCI. Her research interests are in usable security and aging in place. She is working on investigating socially supported technical assistance for older adults.

 

 

 

Sarah Abdi

Sarah Abdi is working on her Masters of HCI. Her research interests are in psychology, web design, and usable privacy and security.

Hediyeh Motaghian

Hediyeh Motaghian holds a master’s degree in information technology management and conducted research on adoption of web-based learning systems. Currently, she is working on her master’s of HCI. Her research interests are in adoption of security and privacy technologies and usable security and privacy for online learning management systems.

 

 

 

 

Chanthea Quinland

Chanthea is a Masters in Human Computer Interaction student. Her area of interest is Cybersecurity education and awareness & training. Interested in ways to educated vulnerable communities and write people centered policies.

 

 

 

 

Undergraduate

Kalumbu Kasaji

Kalumbu Kasaji is an undergraduate student in computer science. She completed a Dean’s Summer Research and I-CUREUS Internship in the SPIRL lab. She is continuing work on a graphical password project.

 

 

 

 

Mary-Emma Barnhill

Mary-Emma is an undergraduate student in computer science. She completed previous research in the SPIRL lab on user perceptions of pronounceable passwords and is continuing work on a pronounceable password project.

 

 

 

 

Alumni

  • Zaine Moodie
  • Robert Babaev
  • Nuha Sheikh
  • Zeynep Kocacenk
  • Clarissa Fernandes
  • Meera Balsara
  • Jake Bauer
  • Svetlana Dobrynina
  • Adam Khachi
  • Lin Kyi
  • Samuel Mitchell
  • Tina Safaie
  • Joy Smith
  • Guillaume St-Pierre