Lorrie Cranor, Board Member and Co-Founder

Wombat's Board Member and Co-Founder Lorrie Cranor Lorrie is an associate professor in the School of Computer Science and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. She is director of the CMU Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS). She has authored more than 80 research papers about online privacy, phishing and semantic attacks, spam, electronic voting, anonymous publishing, usable access control and other topics. She has played a key role in building the usable privacy and security research community, having co-edited the seminal book “Security and Usability” (O’Reilly 2005) and founded the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS). She also chaired the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) Specification Working Group at the W3C and authored the book “Web Privacy with P3P” (O’Reilly 2002). She has served on a number of boards, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation Board of Directors, and on the editorial boards of several journals. In 2003, she was named one of the top 100 innovators 35 or younger by Technology Review magazine. She was previously a researcher at AT&T-Labs Research and taught in the Stern School of Business at New York University.