The Computing Innovation Fellows Project

Posted on: Monday, May 18th, 2009
Broad Research Area: Information Assurance / Security / Privacy / Cryptography, Social Computing / Social Informatics, Technology Policy

Research Interests:

My interests are in economics of security and value-sensitive design. I welcome the recently graduated who want to join these projects or work on closely related efforts of their own.

Under the economics of security rubric I am working on three projects: the insider threat, eCrime, and IPv6 diffusion. In the eCrime vein I am examining how an individual can utilize their own histories and social network to identify malicious parties.

The eCrime work combines some elements of design for values, because the focus of NetTrust is on empowering individuals to use their own information without having to share it with third parties. Please see http://www.ljean.com/NetTrust/.

In contrast, the work on defending against the insider threat is focused entirely on the economics and usability elements of the solution. Our work on incentive-aware access control combines incentives for the individual employee and the organization to align the interests of these stakeholders in securing information while getting the job done.

The third project is an examination of adoption of IPv6 and corresponding depletion of the IPv4 unallocated pool. Please see my general page, http://www.infosecon.net/, for information on economics of security and privacy.

In design for values, I am part of a team working on the ethical and privacy-enhancing use of ubiquitous technologies for elders. Elders are most often targeted for fraud, but least often considered in the design of security technology. Please see http://ethos.indiana.edu for more information on that project.

My interest in secure and private health information combines all of these elements: economics of security, privacy-aware design, incentive engineering, and eCrime. Please see the workshop I am chairing, “Security and Privacy in Medical and Home-Care Systems” http://www.infosecon.net/SPIMACS/ for more information.

You are welcome to contact my previous students if you are seeking independent information about how I might function as a mentor. The recently-graduated or graduating students are Camilo Viecco, Allan Friedman and Warigia Bowman at www.cs.indiana.edu/~cviecco/, allan.friedmans.org/ and www.warigiabowman.com/.

Contact Information:

http://www.ljean.com/contact.html
You may call me at my mobile number, 617 233 6658, during normal business hours if you want to learn more about my work and interests.