Kassem Fawaz

Expert on the security and privacy of users and systems. Making privacy policies/settings more usable and interactions between users and systems more private and secure.

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering College of Engineering Work: 608-890-0529 — Home and cell phones available upon request kfawaz@wisc.edu Home page

Topics

How can we provide users of online systems with usable privacy notice and choice? Can we improve access and understanding of privacy policies/settings?
How did the recent privacy legislation (in California and the EU) change the privacy landscape to the users?
Website, apps, and devices collect considerable amounts of information about their users. Can we improve the privacy of the users of these systems?
Users interact with many devices on a daily basis. Can we make the interaction of the users and their devices more secure?

Achievements

Awarded the Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies in 2019.
Research on privacy has been featured in several media outlets, such as Wired, the Wall Street Journal, the New Scientist, and ComputerWorld.
Received the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2020.
Contributor to pribot.org -- an online service to assist user in visualizing and understanding privacy policies.
Author/Co-author of more than 30 peer-reviewed articles in security and privacy. Also inventor/co-inventor on 8 patents/patent applications.