Sanchari Das


Bio

Sanchari Das is an Assistant Professor at the department of Computer Science in the Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science at University of Denver. My research lab – Security and Privacy Research in New-Age Technology (SPRINT) focuses on computer security, privacy, education, human-computer interaction, social computing, accessibility, and sustainability of new-age technologies.

She received Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington under the supervision of Dr. L. Jean Camp. Her dissertation focused on understanding users’ risk mental models to help in secure decision-making for authentication technologies. She also worked on projects related to social media privacy, privacy policies, the economics of security, IoT device security, electronic waste security, the security of AR/VR/MR devices, and others.

She currently also works as a User Experience Consultant for the secure technologies at Parity Technology and as a Global Privacy Adviser at XRSI.org.

She completed Masters in Security Informatics from Indiana University Bloomington, Masters in Computer Applications from Jadavpur University, Bachelors in Computer Applications from The Heritage Academy. Previously, she worked as a Security and Software Engineer for American Express, Infosys Technologies, and HCL Technologies.

Her work has been published in several top-tier academic venues, including CHI, FC, SOUPS, etc. She also presented at several security conferences, including BlackHat, RSA, BSides, Enigma, and others. These works have also received media coverage in CNET, The Register, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Iron Geek, and other venues.

 

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Recent Publications

  • Joshua Streiff, Naheem Noah, and Sanchari Das. A Call for a New Privacy and Security Regime for IoT Smart Toys. In IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE DSC 2022), 2022. IEEE.
    Keywords: IoT. [bibtex-entry]


  • Zitao Zhang, Jacob Abbott, Sanchari Das, and L. Jean Camp. Building an Authentication Infrastructure — Designing a Two Factor Authentication Hardware Token with Form Factor that Encourages Engagement. In TPRC 2022: The 50th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy, 2022. Social Science Research Network.
    Keywords: Security, UX, 2FA. [bibtex-entry]


  • Shakthidhar Gopavaram, Jayati Dev, Sanchari Das, and L Jean Camp. IoT Marketplace: Willingness-To-Pay vs. Willingness-To-Accept. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2021), June 2021.
    Keywords: IoT, Privacy Labels, Marketplace, Psychological Biases. [bibtex-entry]


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