Carnegie Mellon…

                                             Carnegie Mellon University   E-mail: kami@cs.cmu.edu
                                             5000 Forbes Ave
                                             Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Kami Vaniea
RESEARCH INTERESTS
   I am interested in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) as it applies to Security
   applications. Specifically, I am interested in further understanding how people
   control access to their resources through the design, creation and implementation
   of policy for both individual devices and larger environments.

EDUCATION
   PhD Student in Computer Science
   Carnegie Mellon University

   Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (2005)
   Oregon State University
EXPERIENCE

   Graduate Researcher                                                    Sept. 2005-present
   Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
   ·   Researching the usability of discretionary access control systems.
   ·   Looking at policy creation design and implementation as well as how usability of
       access-control systems impacts security.

   IBM Research Intern                                                May. 2007 - Sep. 2007
   IBM Research TJ Watson, Hawthorn, NY
   ·   Conducted research on the design of an interface to support the composition of
       machine readable privacy policies using natural language.
   ·   Implemented a new authoring interface and ran a user study which evaluated its
       effect on policy authors' efficiency and accuracy.

   Center for Cyber Defenders Intern                                 June 2004 ­ Aug. 2004
   Sandia National Laboratories , Livermore, CA
   ·   Assisted in ongoing research activities involving network traffic analysis tools
       and security analysis of systems used by Sandia.
   ·   Did a full security analysis, red team, on several video conferencing systems
       with team of fellow students. Analysis included detecting and exploiting security
       holes in ftp, telnet, and web servers.
   ·   Assisted in the creation of a network sniffer/analysis tool designed to monitor
       network traffic passively and build profiles on each node.

   Undergraduate Research Assistant                                  April 2002 ­ June 2005
   Oregon State University , Corvallis, OR
   ·   Assisted with research on recommender systems including running studies to
       test new algorithms and creating web apps.
   ·   Integrated a search engine and a recommender system to test how users make
       use of recommendations while searching online.
   ·   Assisted in running several user studies on the effectiveness of new algorithms.

   Undergraduate Research Assistant                              June 2003 ­ Aug. 2003
   Columbia University ,New York, NY
   · Taught classes using Lego Mindstorms at a Harlem community center, an upper
      west side 6 th grade classroom and a pre-college program. Presented and taught
      the final curriculum at a workshop for teachers as part of Technology
      Integration Partnerships.
   · Personal duties included: designing curriculum, collaborating with teachers and
      other students, teaching classes/workshops and building a web page.
AWARDS
   ·    Google's Anita Borg Scholarship for Women in Computer Science, 2004
   ·    NSF Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention
   ·    National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates
   ·    Burgess Tektronix Award for outstanding Engineering senior of the year, Oregon
        State University, 2004
   ·    Waldo ­ Cummings Outstanding student 2003, 2004 Honorable Mention
        Recipient

PUBLICATIONS
    ·   Lujo Bauer, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Michael K. Reiter, and Kami Vaniea, " Lessons
        learned from the deployment of a smartphone-based access-control system ,"
        In Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS, 2007)
    ·   Jason Cornwell, Ian Fette, Gary Hsieh, Madhu Prabaker, Jinghai Rao, Karen
        Tang, Kami Vaniea, Lujo Bauer, Lorrie Cranor, Jason Hong, Bruce McLaren, Mike
        Reiter, Norman Sadeh, "User-Controllable Security and Privacy For Pervsive
        Computing", In the 8th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and
        Applications (HotMobile 2007)
EXTRACURICULAR ACTIVITIES

   Women@SCS                                                        2005 - Present
   · Women in Computer Science student organization designed to support and
     promote women in the field
   · Outreach Roadshow ­ do presentations to schools, teachers and outreach events
   · The Barbara Lazarus Women@IT Fellowship
   · Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing


   Tea Time                                                           2005 - Present
   · Organize a weekly departmental tea tasting social event designed to promote
     communication between graduate students and a healthy understanding of tea.

   Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)                               2001-2005
   · Oregon State University Student Chapter
   · President (2003 ­ 2005), Secretary (2002 ­ 2003)
   · Designed and ran the first Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
     departmental graduation ceremony in over 30 years
   · Initiated, taught and participated in weekly student taught workshop sessions
   · Hosted and spoke at several dinners and receptions to assist graduating seniors
     in connecting with corporate representatives.

   Women and Minorities in Engineering                                 2003 - 2005
   · Action Counsel representative for Computer Science (Oregon State University)
   · Webmaster, Mentor and Tutor


   Oregon Software Engineering Contest                                  2001 - 2003
   · Three month long, state wide, team based, programming contest
   · Placed second with an instant messaging conversational agent program