Christine Chen Wins NSF Fellowship

Congratulations to Security Lab PhD student Christine Chen for being awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

Quoting from the Allen School News article on the topic: Chen’s research interests lie at the intersection of technology and crime, physical safety, and at-risk populations. Her recent work has focused on technology and survivors of human trafficking. Chen just wrapped up a study in which she interviewed victim service providers (VSPs) to expose how technology can be utilized to re-victimize survivors of trafficking and understand how VSPs mitigate these risks as they interact with and support survivors. As a result of this work, Chen and her collaborators propose privacy and security guidelines for technologists who wish to partner with VSPs to support and empower trafficking survivors. The study will be presented at the upcoming USENIX Security Symposium in August.