Ada Lerner
(she/her/hers or they/them/theirs)
Assistant Professor, Director of BS in Cybersecurity Program
Research interests
- Human–computer interaction
- Security and privacy
Education
- PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
- MS in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
- BA in Computer Science, Amherst College
Biography
Ada Lerner is an assistant professor and the director of the BS in Cybersecurity program at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston.
Lerner researches human–computer interaction and security and privacy, and is a member of Northeastern's Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute. She has published at the Symposium on Usable Privacy, ACM CHI, ACM CCS, and IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. Prior to joining Northeastern, she worked as an assistant professor at Wellesley College.
Outside of work, Lerner enjoys games of all kinds, including board games, card games, puzzles, crosswords.
Recent publications
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[TEST-FEB13]-Privacy Norms of Transformative Fandom: A Case Study of an Activity-Defined Community
Citation: Abby Marsh, Ada Lerner. (2024). Privacy Norms of Transformative Fandom: A Case Study of an Activity-Defined Community Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 8, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1145/3637388 -
[TEST-FEB13]-‘Custodian of Online Communities’: How Moderator Mutual Support in Communities Help Fight Hate and Harassment Online
Citation: Madiha Tabassum, Alana Mackey, Ada Lerner. (2024). 'Custodian of Online Communities': How Moderator Mutual Support in Communities Help Fight Hate and Harassment Online SOUPS @ USENIX Security Symposium, 297-314. https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2024/presentation/tabassum-madiha -
[TEST-FEB13]-Counting Carrds: Investigating Personal Disclosure and Boundary Management in Transformative Fandom
Citation: Kelly Wang, Dan Bially Levy, Kien T. Nguyen, Ada Lerner, Abigail Marsh. (2024). Counting Carrds: Investigating Personal Disclosure and Boundary Management in Transformative Fandom CHI, 575:1-575:13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642664
