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PhD Candidate, UW-Madison CS Incoming Assistant Professor, UT Arlington CSE
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Hi, I’m Sophie! I am a final-year PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, where I am advised by Professor Rahul Chatterjee. Here, I am on the leadership team of the Madison Tech Clinic, which provides direct service to survivors of technology-facilitated abuse across Wisconsin. I am also an incoming Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UT Arlington, starting Fall 2026.
I research interpersonal security & privacy (S&P). In my work, I seek to (i) combat technology-facilitated abuse, hate, and harassment and (ii) support digital safety and privacy within interpersonal relationships. I use a context-sensitive, interdisciplinary approach involving qualitative research methods and community-engaged design.
I publish in top S&P and HCI venues including USENIX Security, ACM CHI, ACM CSCW, and IEEE S&P, and have earned paper awards at CHI and CSCW. I am also an alumna of the 12th Heidelberg Laureate Forum.
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I am recruiting PhD students at UTA. If you have been accepted to the PhD program at UTA and we have overlapping research interests, feel free to email me with your interests and relevant experience.
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<aside> 📰 What’s new?
April 2026: I’ll be at CHI this month - looking forward to seeing folks in Barcelona! 🇪🇸
March 2026: I am excited to share that this fall, I will start as an Assistant Professor at UT Arlington!
March 2026: Thrilled to have earned a 🏆 Best Paper Award at CHI this year for our paper on Trauma-Informed Digital Evidence Collection!
March 2026: Visited and gave a talk 💬 at The George Washington University.
February 2026: Visited and gave research talks 💬 at UT Arlington, Berkeley, UT Dallas, and Cal Poly.
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