Dr. Lorrie Cranor

Biography

Lorrie Faith Cranor is a professor in the Software and Societal Systems Department at Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in security and privacy. She joined CMU in December 2003 after spending seven years at AT&T Labs-Research and has taught at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Cranor has made numerous media appearances, including on CBS Sunday Morning, CNN Financial News, and NPR. She has been recognized with a TED talk on passwords that has garnered 1.5 million views. As a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's board of directors and a Kentucky Colonel, she is dedicated to online security advocacy. Cranor served on the Federal Trade Commission's Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security and has been involved in editorial boards for journals such as IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. She obtained her doctorate in Engineering & Policy from Washington University in St. Louis in 1996 and has been an active contributor to ACM Student Magazine. Beyond academics, Lorrie enjoys playing the flute, participating in local flute choirs and family band, coaching youth soccer, and engaging in various creative projects. She was a 2012-2013 sabbatical fellow at the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and has directed numerous research efforts towards the intersection of technology, society, and policy.

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