Florida International University

Arjun Arunasalam


Assistant Professor

Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences

Keywords

Systems SecurityUser studies/surveys LLMs
User PrivacyCyber Crime

Biography

Dr. Arjun Arunasalam received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Purdue University, working in human-centered security and privacy. Dr. Arjun Arunasalam’s main goal is to understand and improve security, privacy, and trust on sociotechnical systems from a human-centered lens. His research combines user-centered mixed methods, comprising qualitative methods (e.g., digital ethnography and focus groups) and quantitative studies (e.g., surveys and inferential statistics) to expose (1) how sociotechnical systems can fail to deliver content users can trust, (2) emerging abuse from bad actors and (3) impact of abuse on end users’ security and privacy decisions and perceptions.