Formerly a postdoc at the Privacy Lab, Sameer Patil is now an Assistant Professor in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington (IU) and a fellow of IU’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR). Prior to joining IU, he was an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering where he was a member of the NYU Center for Cybersecurity. Previously, he was a Research Scientist at Yahoo Labs in Sunnyvale, CA and at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) in Finland. He has also held Visiting Professor appointments at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria and University of Siegen, Germany. Sameer holds a Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, two Master’s degrees (Computer Science & Engineering and Information) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Bombay, India. Sameer’s research interests lie at the intersection of Privacy and Cybersecurity, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), and Social Computing. The results of his research have been published at top-tier conferences, such as CHI, CSCW, and SOUPS, and he holds several US patents. Sameer’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and Google.

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