Receiving the David J. Kuck Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Prize

I’m honored to receive the David J. Kuck Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Prize from the University of Michigan CSE department. This award recognizes one dissertation annually, and I’m deeply grateful to the selection committee, my advisors, and everyone who made this work possible.

The Dissertation

My dissertation, Usable and Ubiquitous Privacy Aware Sensing Devices, tackled a core tension in our field: how do you build systems that sense and understand human context without compromising privacy?

The work demonstrates embedding privacy constraints into the sensing modality itself, making certain privacy violations physically impossible rather than just contractually prohibited.

I’m grateful to my advisor Alanson Sample, my collaborators, and the UMich CSE community. For more details, see the official announcement.