Research Opportunities

I am always interested in working with curious and motivated students who want to explore meaningful research problems in cybersecurity. My research broadly focuses on the human, organizational, and socio-technical dimensions of cybersecurity, with current interests spanning the following directions.

Research Directions

Human-Centered Security in Organizations

Security policies, processes, and technologies as they are understood, experienced, and carried out in practice, including collaboration, coordination, decision-making, workload, fatigue, burnout, and other human and organizational factors that shape security work.

Security, Privacy, and Technology Adoption

How people and organizations evaluate, select, adopt, and use new technologies, and how security, privacy, trust, governance, and institutional constraints shape those decisions.

Online Safety, Privacy, and Digital Threats

The security and privacy risks people encounter in online environments, including harmful or deceptive interactions, unwanted communications, platform-mediated threats, and the strategies people use to protect themselves.

Human-AI Collaboration in Cybersecurity

How humans and AI systems work together on cybersecurity tasks, including questions around task delegation, oversight, reliance, expertise, decision-making, accountability, and the strengths and limitations of human–AI teams.

Cybersecurity Metascience

How cybersecurity research is produced, evaluated, and sustained, including peer review, research practices, evaluation methods, publication norms, incentives, reproducibility, and the growing influence of generative AI on scientific work.

You can learn more about my ongoing and past work through my publications.

Interested in Working With Me?

If one or more of these research directions interest you, feel free to reach out. Prior research experience or publications are a plus, but not required. I value curiosity, motivation, willingness to learn, and a genuine interest in the research problems we might explore together.

Please include your CV and briefly address the following in your email:

  • Your background: Briefly introduce your academic and/or professional experience.
  • Research opportunity: Specify the type of opportunity you are seeking (e.g., PhD advising, graduate assistantship, Master's research/thesis, undergraduate research/thesis, or other).
  • Research interests and fit: Identify which of my research directions interest you most and why. Briefly discuss how your interests connect with one or two of my publications.

Prospective PhD Students

If you are considering applying to the PhD program at UNO, please review the admission requirements, application process, and timeline before reaching out:

UNO Computing & Information Science PhD - Admissions and Requirements

Admission to the PhD program is handled through UNO's formal admissions process. Contacting me or discussing potential research opportunities with me does not constitute admission to the program.

Good luck with your applications!