Dr. Elissa M. Redmiles is the Clare Luce Boothe Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. She was previously a Faculty Member at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and has additionally served as a consultant and researcher at multiple institutions, including Microsoft Research, Meta, the World Bank, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and the Partnership on AI.
Dr. Redmiles uses computational, economic, and social science methods to understand users’ security, privacy, and online safety-related decision-making processes. She has been working on security for sexual content and interactions for over half a decade with a current focus on defense-in-depth against Image Based Sexual Abuse, especially the AI generation of intimate imagery. Learn more at safeDigitalintimacy.org.
Dr. Redmiles' research has been recognized with the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award, the Internet Defense Prize (Runner-Up), and has received multiple paper awards and other recognitions from USENIX Security, ACM CCS, ACM CHI, ACM CSCW, and ACM EAAMO. Dr. Redmiles has presented her work to the White House, National Academies, and European Commission and her work has been featured in popular press publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Rolling Stone, Wired, and Forbes.
