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Shilton, Katie

Shilton, Katie

Associate Professor
Co-director
College of Information Studies
Brain and Behavior Institute
Patuxent Building Room 1109-F
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Katie Shilton is an associate professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, and leads the Ethics & Values in Design (EViD) Lab. Her research explores ethics and policy for the design of information technologies. She is the PI of the PERVADE project, a multi-campus collaboration focused on big data research ethics. Other projects include developing privacy-sensitive search for email collections; analyzing ethical cultures in computer security research; and building tools to facilitate ethics discussions in mobile application development.

  • Data Privacy and Sociotechnical Cybersecurity
  • Information Justice, Human Rights, and Technology Ethics

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