5th INESC-ID Security & Privacy Talk “Minority or Minoritized? Gender and Cybersecurity and Privacy”
The 5th event in the series of seminars on Security & Privacy at INESC-ID, in the context of the Security & Privacy Thematic line. In this talk, titled “Minority or Minoritized? Gender and Cybersecurity and Privacy” Maryam Mehrnezhad from the Royal Holloway University of London will present the results of his work around the topics of (i) FemTech and Cybersecurity, and (ii) Online Privacy and Gender via the UK ESRC-funded projects, PETRAS CyFer, AGENCY, and the research of his team at the Usable Security and Privacy (USP) Lab, Information Security Department, Royal Holloway University of London, UK.
Date & Time: February 10, 17h00
Where: INESC-ID Alves Redol, Auditorium (Room 9)
Short Bio:
Maryam Mehrnezhad is a Reader in Information Security Group (ISG), Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL), UK, joined in September 2022. Before that, he was a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Secure and Resilient Systems (SRS) group, Newcastle University, UK, and a Visiting Professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 2022. He is interested in Security and Privacy Engineering topics where the research projects are informed by real-world problems. He works on emerging technologies, usable security and privacy, and security standardization, and with W3C as an invited expert. He his particularly interested in real-world multi-disciplinary projects and working with academia, industry and standardisation bodies. His research has changed international standards e.g., W3C sensor specifications, and fixed vulnerabilities on software products e.g., Mozilla Firefox’s fix on Firefox 46 (CVE-2016-2813, reported as high impact), Apple’s fix on Safari in IOS 9.3 (CVE-2016-1780). Maryam Mehrnezhad research is also featured in the national and international media e.g., sensor security in BBC, and Guardian, FemTech security in Information Security Buzz, and blockchain in CoinDesk.
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