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

The David J. Kuck Prize goes to one dissertation a year across all of UM CSE, and being selected felt like a real validation of the years of work that went into it.

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.