Tufts Security and Privacy

We seek to make the Internet safer through research focusing on how professionals build, operate, use, and defend systems. We draw on human-computer interaction and social science methods to investigate how these professionals make security decisions and how they work together on teams and within the broader community. Our goal is to create more usable tooling to best leverage their skills and reduce the security work's barriers to entry.

Our Research

Example code written in Rust

Secure
Development

BinaryNinja disassembler view

Vulnerability Discovery for All

Operating room

Medical System Security

Petri dish with disinformation word cloud

Disinformation

Network analyst reviewing security alerts

Network Defense

Blue graph that makes up an image of a lock

Database Privacy

OUR AMAZING TEAM

We have awesome people in our lab

Dan Votipka

Dan Votipka

Assistant Professor
TSP Co-Director

Johes Bater

Johes Bater

Assistant Professor
TSP Co-Director

Josephine Wolff

Josephine Wolff

Associate Professor

Susan Landau

Susan Landau

Bridge Professor
in Cyber Security and Policy

Jeff Foster

Jeff Foster

Professor

Ron Thompson

PhD Candidate

James Mattei

PhD Candidate

Samantha Katcher

PhD Candidate

Carson Powers

PhD Candidate

Sarah Radway

PhD Student

Kathy Quintanilla

Undergraduate

Matt Soto

Matthew Soto

Undergraduate

Nickolas Gravel

Masters

Cordelia Ludden

Undergraduate

Bisrat Yismashewa

Undergraduate

Perucy Mussiba

Undergraduate

Deborha Dagnachew

Undergraduate
Boston University

Gabriel Terceros

Undergraduate
UMBC

Anh Pham

Undergraduate
Mount Holyoke College

Sam Cohen

Undergraduate
Colby College

Yuling Wang

Undergraduate

Arya Prasad

Undergraduate

Christopher Pellegrini

Undergraduate

ALUMNI

Madeline McLaughlin

Recorded Future

Santana Koring'ura

Undergraduate

Yijun Liu

Elon University

Gustavo Curioso

Alum
Redline Trading Solutions

Liana Wang

Alum
Apple

EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS

We also work with awesome people

Michelle Mazurek

University of Maryland

Michael Hicks

Amazon Web Services

Kelsey Fulton

Colorado School of Mines

Marshini Chetty

University of Chicago

Rock Stevens

External Collaborator

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Undergraduate Research

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