Full Name
Diana Freed
Job Title
PhD Candidate
Company
Cornell University
Speaker Bio
Diana Freed is a PhD candidate at Cornell University in the Department of Information Science. Her research focuses on digital security and privacy, and technologies for mental health and chronic conditions. She combines techniques from computer security, HCI, psychology, and law to develop new tools, technologies, and theories to detect and mitigate technology-enabled abuse. She has been awarded a 2020 Facebook Fellowship, was a 2019-2020 Doctoral Fellow at the Digital Life Initiative, and is a recipient of the Engaged Cornell Graduate Student Grant. Previously, she worked as a Technologist-in-Residence at Cornell Tech in the Small Data Lab where her research focused on mHealth, mobile sensing, and patient-centered design. She is an Affiliate and 2015-16 Fellow at the Data and Society Research Institute, a Visiting Scholar and a graduate of NYU-ITP '15, and a graduate of Columbia University.
Diana Freed