Previous Seminars
Here you will find an archive of previous seminar series. Many talks have links to additional information. We encourage you to take a moment to browse past presenters.
2025-2026
8/26/25 - Hana Habib (CMU)
9/2/25 - Kristen Martin (CMU Heinz College)
9/9/25 - Privacy Engineering Internship Presentations
9/16/25 - Privacy Engineering Internship Presentations
9/23/25 - Amin Rahimian (University of Pittsburgh)
9/30/25 - Ryan Calo (University of Washington, School of Law)
10/7/25 - Jason Gursky (Privacy Company)
10/28/25 - Sam Egelmen (ICSI/UC Berkeley
11/11/25 - Debra Berlyn (Project GOAL)
11/18/25 - Jillian Fish (Westfield Insurance, Part-time Privacy Engineering Student)
11/25/25 - Sri Pravallika Maddipati (Google)
12/2/25 - Privacy Engineering Capstone Presentations
2024-2025
A playlist of fall 2025 Privacy Seminars is available on Youtube.
A playlist of the Spring 2025 Privacy Seminars is available on Youtube.
1/14/25 - Arvind Narayanan (Princeton)
1/21/25 - McKenna McCall (CMU- Cylab)
1/28/25 - Amritha Raghunath (Meta)
2/4/25 - Michael Feffer (CMU)
2/11/25 - Hank Lee (CMU- HCII)
2/18/25 - Jason Hong (CMU- HCII)
2/25/25 - Igor Bilogrevic (Google)
3/11/25 - May Smith (Google)
3/25/25 - Shalabh Jain (Bosch Research Center)
4/1/25 - Daniel Solove (George Washington University)
4/2/25 - Kassem Fawaz (UW-Madison)
4/8/25 - Jules Polonetsky (The Future of Privacy Forum)
4/15/25 - Marco Paes (Software Engineering Institute)
4/22/25 - Alessandro Acquisti (CMU)
2023-2024
A playlist of the 2024 Privacy Seminars is available on Youtube.
Fall 2023
September 19th 2023 - Omer Tene (Goodwin Law)
September 26th 2023 - Aleecia McDonald (CMU)
October 3rd 2023 - Lauren Herckis (CMU)
October 10th 2023 (Co-Sponsored by the Block Center for Technology and Society)
- Krishnaram Kenthapadi (Fiddler AI)
October 24th 2023 (Co-Sponored by the Block Center for Technology and Society
October 31st 2023 - Sebastian Zimmeck (Wesleyan University)
November 14th 2023 - Jayati Dev (Comcast)
November 21st 2023 - Chris Choy & John Szinger (Consumer Reports)
November 28th 2023 - Cooper Quintin (EFF)
2022-2023
Fall 2022
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE/ SUBJECT |
| September 1 | Summer Internship Panel 1 | |
| September 8 | Summer Internship Panel 2 | |
| September 15 | Summer Internship Panel 3 | |
| September 22 | Kim Wuyts, KUL | |
| September 29 | Efe Bozkir, CMU Cylab | |
| October 6 | Caroline Louveaus, Mastercard | |
| October 13 | Andrea Gallardo, CMU Cylab | |
| October 27 | Aerin Zhang | |
| November 3 | Kassem Fawaz, University of Wisconsin- Madison | |
| November 10 | Peter Swire, Georgia Tech | |
| November 17 | Arvind Narayanan, Princeton | |
| December 1 | Lee Matheson, Future of Privacy Forum | |
| December 8 | Jennifer Urban, University of California - Berkeley |
Spring 2023
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE/ SUBJECT |
| January 31 | Shomir Wilson, Penn State | |
| February 7 | Cameron Boozarjomehri, Mozilla | |
| February 21 | Yixin Zou, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy | |
| February 28 | Alessandro Acquisti, CMU, Heinz College | |
| March 21 | Cara Bloom (MITRE) | |
| March 28 | Jennifer Urban, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology | |
| April 4 | Divya Sharma, Google | |
| April 11 | Ellen Nadeau, Cruise | |
| March 31 | ||
| April 14 | ||
| April 21 | ||
| April 28 |
2021-2022
Fall 2021
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE/ SUBJECT |
| September 9 | Joel Reardon, University of Calgary/AppCensus | "Proximity Tracing in an Ecosystem of Surveillance Capitalism" |
| September 16 | Jay Laefer, Google | "Transparency Reports: Using data to shed light on governments and corporations" |
| September 23 | Mark Settle | "A CIO's guide to Privacy Data Protection" |
| September 30 | Joe DiVito, PwC | "Privacy Engineering and Consulting: How Soon Do You Graduate?" |
| October 7 | Daniel Calderon, MSIT-PE Alumni | "Introduction to Privacy Threat Modeling" |
| October 21 | Peter Dolanjski, DuckDuckGo | "Trackers, trackers everywhere" |
| October 28 | Jane Horvath, Apple | |
| November 4 | Matthias Grabmair, TU Munchen | "Automatic Summarization and Citation Prediction in Veterans Claims Decisions" |
| November 11 | Book Reports 1 | |
| November 18 | Book Reports 2 | |
| December 2 | Book Reports 3 |
Spring 2022
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE/ SUBJECT |
| January 27 | Hana Habib, CMU | |
| February 3 | Emil Ochotta, Google | |
| February 10 | Ram Ramadoss, Paul Deleanu, Sofia Andrade, CommonSpirit Health | |
| February 17 | Joanne Furtsch, TrustArc | |
| February 24 | Jules Polonstsky, Future of Privacy Forum | |
| March 3 | Gerome Miklau, University of Massachusetts | |
| March 17 | JC Cannon | |
| March 24 | Elanor Birrell, Pomona | |
| March 31 | Horst Kapfenberger, NYOB | |
| April 14 | Ben Adida, Voting Works | |
| April 21 | Ruby Zefo, Uber | |
| April 28 | MSIT-PE Capstone Presentation |
2020-2021
Fall 2020
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE/ SUBJECT |
| September 10 | Summer Internship Reports, Part 1 | |
| September 17 | Summer Internship Reports, Part 2 | |
| September 24 | Garrett Johnson, Boston University | "Privacy & market concentration: Intended and unintended consequences of the GDPR" |
| October 8 | CYLAB Biometrics and Privacy Event | |
| October 15 | Ravneet Singh, Clearwater Compliance | "Cyber Risk Management in Healthcare: Securing ePHI" |
| October 22 | John Wilander, Apple | "A Modern, Privacy-Preserving Web" |
| October 29 | Danny Huang, New York University | "IoT Inspector: Crowdsourcing Labeled Network Traffic from Smart Home Devices at Scale" |
| November 5 | Diana Freed, Cornell University | "Imroving Privacy and Safety for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence" |
| November 12 | Preethi Josephina Mudialba, Bank for International Settlements | "The Future of Privacy in DevSecOps" |
| November 19 | Dr. Liz Keneski, Facebook Inc. | "Inclusive Privacy Education" |
| December 3 | Privacy Engineering Capstone Presentations | |
| December 10 | Reuben Binns, Oxford/ICO | "Privacy Engineering in Regulation and Public Service" |
Spring 2021
2019-2020
Spring 2020
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE/ SUBJECT |
| January 30 | Daniel Calderon, Zalando | "Introduction to Data Governance at Scale" |
| February 6 | Karen Levy, Cornell Tech | "RoboTruckers: The Double Threat of AI for Low-Wage Work" |
| February 13 | Jennifer Sydeski Hurd, Connect Wolf | "Privacy & Profit: A tale of two priorities" |
| February 20 | Jim Moffet, Fabrk | "Privacy & Power in Ads, Elections and Intelligence: Field notes from two early ventures" |
| February 27 | Robin Berjon, The NY Times | "Privacy at the New York Times: Problems & (Some) Solutions" |
| March 5 | Diane Hosfelt, Mozilla | "Ethics, Privacy, and Security in Mixed Reality" |
| March 19 | Garrett Johnson, Boston University | "Privacy & market concentration: Intended & unintended consequences of the GDPR" |
| March 26 | CHI Practice talks | |
| April 2 | Javed Ramjohn, Google | "Getting Good Privacy Outcomes: A reflection on being a Privacy Engineer" |
| April 9 | Book Reports 1 | |
| April 23 | Book Reports 2 | |
| April 30 | Roche Janke, Uber | "8 Things You Should Never do as a Privacy Engineer" |
2018-2019
Fall 2018
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE/ SUBJECT |
| August 30 | Jessica Colnago, CMU | "HCI Research Internship: A Summer at Mozilla" |
| September 6 | Tepper Ethics Lunch Series | |
| September 13 | Privacy Engineering summer internship reports | |
| September 20 | Kambiz Ghazinour Naini, Director of the Advanced Information Security and Privacy (AISP) Lab, Kent State | "A Spy on Your Wrist. A Privacy Protection Layer for Wearable Devices" |
| September 27 | Ope Akanbi, University of Pennsylvania | "Digital Cultures at Work" |
| October 11 | Gurav Misra, CMU | "Using Avatars to Safeguard Personal Information" |
| October 18 | Pardis Emami-Naeini, CMU | "The Influence of Friends and Experts on Privacy Decision Making in IoT Scenarios" |
| October 25 | Eric Bukstein, PWC | "A Day (and night) in the Life of a Privacy Lawyer" |
| November 1 | Nathalie Marechal, Ranking Digital Rights | "Ranking Digital Rights: How Privacy Engineers Can Help" |
| November 8 | Gunes Acar, Princeton University | "Focus on Web Privacy" |
| November 15 | Divya Sharma, Google | "Privacy Engineering on the Ground: Problems, Principles, Perspectives" |
| November 29 | Capstone Project Final presentations | |
| December 6 | Esma Aimeur, University of Montreal | "The Subtle Art of Online Deception" |
Spring 2019
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE/ SUBJECT |
| January 24 | Camille Cobb, University of Washington | "Peer to Peer Privacy in Social and Communications Applications" |
| January 31 | Rebecca Weiss, Mozilla | "Firefox Data Collection Policies" |
| February 7 | Nishant Bhajaria, Google | "Privacy Engineering: how you can help innovate with and protect data" |
| February 14 | Timothy Libert | |
| February 28 | Gabriela Zanifir-Fortuna, Future of Privacy Forum | "Taming of the Shrew: Could the GDPR really keep in check the Data Age?" |
| March 21 | Joe Calandrino, Federal Trade Commission | "Protecting Consumers in a Technical World" |
| March 28 | Joe Turow | |
| April 4 | Book Presentations 1 | |
| April 18 | Book Presentations 2 | |
| April 25 | Lalitha Sankar, Arizona State University | "Generative Adversarial Privacy: A Data-driven Approach |
| May 2 | Chi Practice Talks |
2017-2018
Fall 2017
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE/ SUBJECT |
| September 7 | Summer internships (6 presentations) | |
| September 21 | Summer Internships (6 presentations) | |
| September 28 | Moderated by Norman Sadeh; Panelists: Omar Khawaja, Highmark Health, & Nathan Kottkamp, McGuire Woods | Panel: "Privacy in the Healthcare Sector: Challenges and Best Practices" |
| October 5 | Ying Lei Toh, School of Information at Berkeley | "Incentivizing Firm to Invest in Data Security: Can Reputation Play a (Bigger) Role?" |
| October 12 | Vasyl Pihur, Snap | "User Privacy in the World of Three Billion Snaps Per Day" |
| October 19 | Sarah Pearman, CUPS Lab | "Let's Go in for a Closer Look: Observing Passwords in Their Natural Habitat" |
| October 26 | Dr. Pam Wisniewski, UCF | |
| November 19 | Fei Fang, Asst. Professor, CMU Institute for Software Research | |
| November 16 | Book Presentations | |
| November 30 | Capstone Project final presentations | |
| December 7 | Book Presentations |
Spring 2018
2016-2017
Fall 2016
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE/ SUBJECT |
| September 8 | Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Asst. Professor, LUMS SBA School of Computer Science and Engineering | "Measurements and Advertising Under Internet Censorship" |
| September 15 | Four second year MSIT-PE students discuss their summer internships | |
| September 22 | Rich Shay, MIT | |
| September 29 | Travis Breaux, CMU | |
| October 13 | Anupam Das | Tracking Mobile Web Users Through Motion Sensors: Attacks and Defenses |
| October 27 | Sebastian Zimmeck | Automated Privacy Requirement Analysis for Mobile Apps “This presentation is part of the Usable Privacy Policy Project - https://www.usableprivacy.org/ |
| November 3 | Apu Kapadia, Indiana University Bloomington | |
| December 1 | Student Book Presentations | |
| December 8 | Student Book Presentations |
Spring 2017
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE/ SUBJECT |
| January 26 | Lorrie Cranor | Enigma Practice Talk- "Putting Privacy Notices to the Test" |
| January 27 | JOIN MSIT-PE STUDENTS FOR CMU PRIVACY DAY | |
| February 2 | Sebastian Zimmeck, CMU | "A Privacy Analysis of Cross-Device Tracking" |
| February 9 | Martin Degeling, CMU | "Online Profiling- What tracking companies learn from browsing habits and ways to take control of your data double" |
| February 16 | Alessandro Acquisti, CMU | “Privacy, Economics, and Behavior: An overview” |
| February 23 | Jason Hong, CMU | |
| March 9 | Yang Wang, Syracuse | "The Third Wave? Inclusive Privacy and Security." |
| March 23 | Elizabeth Stobert, ETH Zurich | |
| March 30 | Janice Tsai, Microsoft | |
| April 6 | Adam Durity, Google | |
| April 13 | Travis Hall, NTIA | |
| April 27 | Josh Tan, CMU | "Can unicorns help users compare crypto key fingerprints?" (practice talk for CHI) |
| May 4 | Hana Habib, CMU | "Designing the MPN Wizard: A Proposed Solution to the Privacy Snapshot Challenge” |
2015-2016
Fall 2015
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE/ SUBJECT |
| September 3 | Manya Sleeper | Ubicomp practice talk + Syllabus |
| September 10 | Rebecca Balebako, RAND | |
| September 17 | Nina Taft, Google | |
| October 1 | Joe Hall, CDT | |
| October 29 | Jonathan Mayer | |
| November 5 | Lisa Martinelli, Highmark CPO | |
| November 12 | Janice Tsai, Microsoft | |
| December 3 | Molly Jackman, Facebook | |
| December 10 | Student Book Presentations |
Spring 2016
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE/ SUBJECT |
| January 14 | Blase Ur | Supporting Password-Security Decisions with Data |
| January 21 | Norman Sadeh, CMU | "Towards Personalized Privacy Assistants", or How to Scale "Notice and Choice" for the Internet of Things |
| January 28 | CMU Privacy Day | |
| February 4 | Lorrie Cranor & Anthony Rowe | Davos Trip report |
| February 11 | Nishant Bhajara, Nike | |
| February 18 | Carleen Maitland, Penn State | |
| February 25 | Andrew Smith, PrivacyCheq | |
| March 17 | Blase Ur | Job interview roundtable discussion |
| March 31 | Serge Egelman, ICSI / UC Berkeley | |
| April 7 | Manya Sleeper | CHI practice talk |
| April 21 | Joyce Musante, Philips | |
| April 28 | Student Book Presentations |
2014-2015
Spring 2015
| January 14 | Florian Schaub, CMU | Context-adaptive privacy mechanisms |
| January 21 | Norman Sadeh, CMU | Research in Mobile App Privacy |
| Janaury 28 | Julie Brill, Federal Trade Commission | Data Privacy Day - Keynote Speaker |
| February 4 | Sok Woo Yoon, PNC | |
| February 11 | Book Presentations | |
| February 18 | Book Presentations | |
| February 25 | Alfred Kobsa, UC Irvine | "Privacy and the Limits of A/B Testing" |
| March 4 | Tracy Ann Kosa, Microsoft | "Measuring Privacy" |
| March 18 | Alan Fairless, Chip Black and Matthew Erickson, SpiderOak | |
| March 25 | Jonathan Petit, University College Cork | Big Brother on Wheels |
| April 1 | Hazim Almuhimedi, Institute for Software Research | "Your Location has been Shared 5,398 Times! A field Study on Mobile App Privacy Nudging" |
| April 8 | Adam Durity, Google | |
| April 15 | Steve Sheng | "Current hot topics in internet identifiers security and Internet Governance" |
| April 22 | Steve Olshansky, Internet Society | "TosBack2: Next Steps in Terms of Service and Privacy Policy Archiving and Analysis" |
| April 29 | Bradley Malin, Vanderbilt University | Engineering Privacy- Preserving Record Linkage Systems |
2013-2014
Fall 2013 Seminars
|
DATE |
SPEAKER | TALK TITLE / SUBJECT |
| September 4 | Lorrie Cranor | Privacy Nudging and Self-Censorship on Social Media |
| September 11 | Norman Sadeh | Understanding People's Location Privacy Preferences: A Location Sharing Perspective |
| September 18 | John Papinchak, CMU University Registrar | |
| October 2 | CyLab Poster Session | |
| October 9 | David Stampley, KamberLaw | |
| October 16 | Janice Tsai, Microsoft Research | |
| October 23 | Maritza Johnson, Facebook | |
| October 30 | Jerome Pesenti and Saman Haqqi, Pittsburgh Park Project | |
| November 6 |
Privacy and public policy in Washington, DC |
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| November 13 | Sok Woo Yoon, SVP & Chief Privacy Officer, PNC Financial Services | |
| November 20 | Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon | |
| December 4 | Mobile App Privacy |
Spring 2014 Seminars
|
DATE |
SPEAKER | TALK TITLE / SUBJECT |
| January 22 | Dan Fredinburg | Privacy at Google |
| January 29 | Nicole Wong, Deputy US Chief Technology Officer | Privacy Day Keynote |
| February 5 | Fernando della Torre | Intraface Project: Privacy Issues |
| February 12 | Florian Schaub | Context Awareness and Privacy |
| February 19 | Anupam Datta | Information Flow Experiments |
| February 26 | Information Flow Experiments (Part II) | |
| March 6 | Saikat Guha, Microsoft | Privacy Compliance |
| March 19 | Junbum Shin, Samsung |
Privacy Challenges in Smart Devices Industry |
| March 26 | Surveillance - Session 1- Student Presentations | |
| April 2 | Mobile App Privacy Policies Session 1 - Mini-Project/Student Presentations | |
| April 9 | Mobile App Privacy Policies Session 2 - Mini-Project/Student Presentations | |
| April 16 | John DeLong, CCEP Director of Compliance, NSA | |
| April 23 | Yuvraj Agarwal | ProtectMyPrivacy: Detecting and Mitigating Privacy Leaks on iOS using Crowdsourcing |
| April 30 | Fairness in Classification |