People in PUPS
Prinicipal Investigator
Bailey Kacsmar Human-centered technical privacy solutions
PhD Students
Rabeya Bosri, Privacy in practice
Afari Darfoor, Privacy and Bionic Limbs, co-supervised with Patrick Pilarski
Masters Students
Gwen Delos Santos Privacy in Reinforcement learning, co-supervised with Michael Bowling
Samuel Feldman, Cryptography and its applications
Afrida Hossain, Software engineering in privacy and AI
Research Assistants
Sasha Dudiy, Blackout Resistant Communications, (NSERC USRA, Summer 2026)
Alumni
Sasha Dudiy, Blackout Resistant Communications, (UGRA, Winter 2026)
Rabeya Bosri, Contextualizing Trade-offs: The Interplay of Privacy, Fairness, and Robustness in High-Stakes Automatic Decision Systems, (MSc. Spring 2026)
Castor Shem, Privacy Problems in Theory versus Media, (UGRA Summer and Fall 2025)
Afari Darfoor, Identifying Privacy Threat Vectors in AI-Enhanced Upper-Limb Bionic Devices, (MSc. Fall 2025, Thesis)
Gwen Delos Santos, Privacy Problems in Theory versus Media, (UGRA Summer 2025, next stage: University of Alberta MSc Student)
Sasha Dudiy, Privacy Problems in Theory versus Media, (UGRA Summer 2025)
Qiantong Guo, Privacy Problems in Theory versus Media, (UGRA Summer 2025)
Naone Kim, Privacy Problems in Theory versus Media, (UGRA Summer 2025)
Khoi Le, Privacy Problems in Theory versus Media, (UGRA Summer 2025)
Lina Saha, Privacy Problems in Theory versus Media, (UGRA Summer 2025)
Alireza Hodae, Cryptography for Privacy, (Visiting researcher Summer 2025)
Jialiang Yan, Privacy and Mobile Notices, (UGRA 2024, next stage: George Washington University PhD Student)
Farishta Kabir, (RA 2024)