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Accepting PhD Students
This faculty member is NOT currently accepting Ph.D. studentsKatie Shilton
Associate Professor & Program Co-Director of the BS in Social Data Sciencekshilton@umd.edu
301-405-3777
Patuxent Building, Room 1109-F
http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~kshilton
Katie Shilton is an associate professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, and leads the Ethics & Values in Design (EViD) Lab. Her research explores ethics and policy for the design of information technologies. She is the PI of the PERVADE project, a multi-campus collaboration focused on big data research ethics. Other projects include developing privacy-sensitive search for email collections; analyzing ethical cultures in computer security research; and building tools to facilitate ethics discussions in mobile application development.
Associated Research Centers
- Center for Archival Futures (CAFe)
- Social Data Science Center (SoDa)
- Values-Centered Artificial Intelligence (VCAI) Initiative
Research & Focus Areas
- Data Privacy and Sociotechnical Cybersecurity
- Data Science, Analytics, and Visualization
- Information Justice, Human Rights, and Technology Ethics
Research Projects
- CAREER: Finding Levers for Privacy and Security by Design in Mobile Development
- CCE STEM: Finding Practices that Cultivate Ethical Computing in Mobile and Wearable Application Research & Development
- CCE STEM: Standard: Collaborative: The Development of Ethical Cultures in Computer Security Research
- Collaborative Research: ER2: The development of research ethics governance projects in computer science
- Collaborative Research: Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research (PERVADE)
- III:Small:Safely Searching Among Sensitive Content