Sushmita Khan
sushmik[at]clemson[dot]edu
Last Updated: January 2026
Research
Area: AI, Privacy, Learning Sciences
Methods: In-Depth Interview, Survey, Action Research, Design Research, Grounded theory, Experiment
Education
Ph.D. Human-Centered Computing, Clemson University (2020 - ), Advisor: Dr. Bart Knijnenburg
Msc. Mathematics (2020) and Information Technology (2018), Georgia Southern University
Bsc. Computer Science and Engineering (2013), Brac University, Bangladesh
Grants & Recognition
1. Travel Grant, ACM UMAP 2025
2. Human Factor Institute, Clemson University, 2024
3. Finalist, Meta PhD Fellowship, Data and Privacy, 2023
4. Computing Research Association (CRA-WP), 2023
5. Travel Award, NSF, 2022 (Award ID 2240232)
6. Diversity Grant, Usenix, 2021
7. SEINFORMS 2017, Best Student Paper: students’ ethical technology use
Invited Talks
1. Implications and Strategies for Adolescents Data Privacy Violation, Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (MIT CAMS)(November 2024)
2. Implications and Strategies for Adolescents Data Privacy Violation, NOKIA Bell Labs (November 2024)
3. Recommender Systems for Preference Elicitation, Intelligent systems Program, University of Pittsburg (October 2024)
4. Prototyping using Figma, HCI 6140 class, Clemson university (Spring 2025, Fall 2024)
5. Recommender Systems for Preference Elicitation, HCC 8810, adaptive decision support system (2022)
6. Technology Limiting Users Perspective, CPSC 8800, Machine learning model explainability (2022)