Hi! I am Sushmita!
I am a Human-Centered Computing PhD Candidate at Clemson University. I am advised by Dr. Bart Knijnenburg. Broadly speaking, I research the Privacy, Inclusivity, and Education of AI, which I like to call, AI PIE (because why not). More specifically, my research investigates (a) affect of pervasive data tracking and personalization on children, (b) AI and Privacy education to help children understand AI and make privacy preserving online decisions, and (c) identify, design, and conduct AI and Privacy education intervention in classrooms.
TLDR: I teach children about AI, and Privacy that can help make informed and privacy-preserving decisions about online interactions
News and Updates
-- Invited to Talk on "AI and Privacy education for Children" at Nokia Bell Labs, 2024
-- Invited to Talk on "AI and Privacy education for Children" at Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan, 2024
-- Invited to Talk on "User-Centered Approaches to Inclusive Recommender Systems Design" at the Intelligent Systems Department at University of Pittsburgh, 2024
-- Our paper "Digital Privacy Education: Customized Interventions for U.S. Older and Younger Adults in Rural and Urban Settings" has been accepted to Technology in Society (June, 2024)
-- Our paper "Participatory Design to Address Disclosure-Based Cyber Bullying" has been accepted to DIS 2024!
-- Travel Grant, Clemson University Human Factors Institute, 2024
-- Our paper "Teaching Middle Schoolers about the Privacy Threats of Tracking and Pervasive Personalization: A Classroom Intervention Using Design-Based Research" has been accepted to CHI 2024!
-- Our poster "Evaluating ADHD Users' experience with Recommender Systems" has been accepted to IUI 2024!
-- Finalist, Meta PhD Fellowship, Privacy and Data practices, 2023
-- CRA Widening Participant Grad Cohort, 2023
-- NSF Travel Grant to attend PrivaCI Symposium, (Award ID 2240232), 2022
-- Usenix Diversity Grant, 2021