Gender Influence on Computer Risk Perception
-Designed online human subject experiment
-Analyzed and illustrated the gender influence on computer risk perception
Game Modeling and Analysis of Insider Threat
- Malicious insiders have long been considered to be one of the most serious threats to organizations' information assets
- A Game theoretic Modeling of the problem of malicious insider was built
- Insider threat was analyzed
- Malicious insider's strategy could be predicted
- Produce optimal defend strategy
Evaluation and Analysis of Proof-of-Work Anti-Spam Mechanism
- Proof of Work is a set of cryptographic mechanisms increasing the cost of sending email
- Construction and evaluation of mathematical model grounded in cryptography and economics
- Model how a Proof of Work system can work to reverse the economics of connection initiation on the Internet
- Illustrated that Proof of Work system will work with a reputation system
Design and Analysis of Computer Risk Communication
- The mental model method is a mechanism for risk communication
- Designed, validated and implemented mental models experiments for computer risk communication
- Built a Flash/PHP/MySQL server-based online survey using pile-sort for data collection
- Completed cluster analysis
- developed a mental model method for cyber risk communication
Evaluation of Phishing Education
- Phishing is a popular and growing method of identity theft which is typically performed by masquerading as a legitimate company or individual and asking people to submit their personal account information
- Arranged an experiment to examine the change in the performance of subjects on a phishing IQ test before and after providing them with phishing education
- Drew statistical conclusions which suggest that phishing education to improve performance fails
Projects in HCI
Design to Support Homeless Community - Led focus group and conducted contextual inquiry
- Designed an information system to support homeless community
eMerge
- Focused on how employees from different cultures and beliefs interact and change their minds during a corporate merger
- Leveraged the power of agent-based modeling
- Built a Flash/ColdFusion/SQL Server-based simulation
Projects in other disciplines CaM Binding Protein Network (Bioinformatics Project)
- The Calmodulin (CaM) is a major transducer of calcium signals which plays a uniquely important role in the physiology of higher organisms
- Built and analyzed the CaM binding protein network using complex network theory in order to help improve the accuracy of predicting CaM binding targets
Coherent Nonlinear Optics (Physics Project)
- Discussed several coherent nonlinear optical phenomena that occur in active quantum-cascade structures that support both laser action and nonlinear self-conversion of laser light into coherent radiation at other frequencies
- Part of team which completed laboratory & computer modeling to confirm theoretical assertions