Hopkins Privacy and Security Lab

Cutting-Edge Research

We do research at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Privacy and Security, and Artificial Intelligence.

Privacy Education

We strive to improve the privacy literacy for different population groups, such as children, families, and vulnerable populations.

Community Building

We aim to build a community within and beyond Hopkins to gather similar-minded people around human-centered privacy and security research.

Research Topics

AI for Privacy and Security

We build AI-based systems to protect users' privacy and security against novel privacy and security threats.

Privacy and Security of AI

We study the privacy and security issues of AI, aiming to make AI systems more private and secure.

Smart Home Privacy

We investigate the privacy issues in smart environments from a multi-stakeholder perspective.

Privacy Education for Families

We explore ways to enhance children's and parents' privacy literacy to protect children's online presence.

KidsTeam

We involve kids in our research to learn their novel thoughts and equip them to become junior researchers.

Inclusive Social VR

We empower people with disabilities to safely and freely disclose their disabilities in social virtual reality.

Blogs

Privacy Education Resource for Children

We strive to make online spaces safe and privacy for children and families. We compiled a list of resources to better support family-based privacy education.

KidsTeam Series

KidsTeam is our long-term research effort to involve kids through the process of designing various artifacts, while giving kids an opportunity to be researchers.