Team

Alessandro Acquisti is a Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy at the Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University. His research combines economics, decision research, and data mining to investigate the role of privacy in a digital society. His studies have spearheaded the economic analysis of privacy, the application of behavioral economics to the understanding of consumer privacy valuations and decision-making, and the investigation of privacy and personal disclosures in online social networks.

Daphne Chang is a fellow in the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. Working with Professor Alessandro Acquisti, her research will focus on the choices involved around information disclosure and its subsequent effects. Specifically, her work will focus on the degree to which everyday individuals understand and choose to use these influences to sway the behavior of others. Her doctoral research involved the purposeful and strategic use of social norms and rhetoric to influence behavior. She received her Ph.D. in information from the University of Michigan in 2019.

Cristobal Cheyre joins Cornell Information Science as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2019 after completing a post-doctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University. Cheyre’s research focuses on the economic, strategic, and organizational implications of the technologies that are shaping the data economy. Following completion of his PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, he spent two years in Chile as Executive Director of “The Clover 2030 Engineering Strategy”, a strategic initiative to promote entrepreneurship and innovation education, applied research, and technology transfer at the School of Engineering of P. Universidad Catolica de Chile.

Dr. Alisa Frik is a postdoctoral researcher at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) and the University of California, Berkeley. She works with the Usable Security and Privacy research group, under the direction of Dr. Serge Egelman. Alisa’s research interests include Usable Security and Privacy, Human-Computer Interaction, Choice Architecture, and Behavior Change. Her current projects include usable security for emerging healthcare technologies for older adults, increasing users’ computer security compliance by reducing present bias, personalised computer security nudges, bystanders’ privacy, privacy and security concerns of domestic workers and other vulnerable populations such as political activists, privacy expectations regarding always listening voice assistant devices, and the effects of ad-blockers on consumers’ welfare. She has also done research on the the impact of risk tolerance and need for control on the privacy related behaviors, and implicit measurement of privacy risk attitudes, as well as factors affecting consumers' trust with respect to how e-commerce websites will treat their personal information and subsequent intention to purchase from such websites. Dr. Frik’s preferred methodological tools include lab and field experiments, surveys, interviews, and participatory design. She has obtained a Ph.D. degree in Behavioral and Experimental Economics and Social Sciences from the University of Trento, Italy. She also spent 1 year visiting the Carnegie Mellon University, where she worked with Prof. Alessandro Acquisti.

Li Jiang is an assistant professor of marketing at the George Washington University School of Business (GWSB). Dr. Jiang joined GW in fall 2018, and her research focuses on consumer behavior in the growing digital domain, especially psychology of technology, information search and disclosure, and privacy. She received her Ph.D. in Marketing from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA. Her work has been published in Management Science, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and several top business and psychology journals. She has received media coverage from Time, Science Daily, and Scientific American, among others.

Florian Schaub is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information. His research focuses on empowering users to effectively manage their privacy in complex socio-technological systems. His research interests span privacy, human-computer interaction, mobile and ubiquitous computing, and the Internet of Things. Before joining the University of Michigan, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his doctoral degree and Diplom in Computer Science from the University of Ulm, Germany, and a Bachelor in Information Technology from Deakin University, Australia.