IEEE Digital Privacy Workshop Speakers
Karanveer Anand, Google
Ümit Cali, University of York
Lorrie Faith Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University
Brice Dobson, Coca Cola
Emelin Flores, 1Password
Chris Gorog, Blockframe Inc.
Nick Napp, Xmark Labs, LLC
Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University
Peter E. Sand, U.S. Dept of Homeland Security
Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University
Karanveer Anand is a seasoned technical program management leader with extensive expertise in reliability, security, and compliance. Currently at Google’s SRE organization, Karanveer leads the privacy and compliance portfolio for Google Workspace services, ensuring the highest standards of data protection and regulatory adherence. Previously, Karanveer held a program management role at Nutanix’s SRE organization, demonstrating his deep understanding of building and maintaining robust and reliable systems. His dedication to excellence has earned him recognition as a Senior IEEE member and Fellow of the Association for Project Management.
Beyond his technical expertise, Karanveer is passionate about education and serves as a Board of Advisor member at San Jose University and the University of California, Irvine. He holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Texas at Austin, laying the foundation for his career in technology and innovation.
Ümit Cali is a Professor of Digital Engineering for Future Technologies at the University of York, UK, and holds a part-time professorship in Energy Informatics at NTNU, Norway. With over 20 years of experience in industry and academia, his research spans legal tech, cyber-physical-social systems, energy systems, digital engineering, digital health, and energy informatics, integrating AI, blockchain, and digital twins. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering (renewable energy systems) and computer science (AI), and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in IT and IP Law. Ümit has worked globally, including roles at IBM and Fraunhofer Institute, and co-founded high-tech startups. He has published over 180 articles, authored three books, and holds three US patents in blockchain. Ümit is actively involved with the IEEE community, serving as a Senior Member and holding several leadership positions, including Chair of the IEEE Energy and Blockchain Technical Community, Chair of the IEEE Digital Privacy (Energy) Sub-committee, and Vice-Chair of the IEEE Blockchain in Energy Standards Working Group (P2418.5).
Lorrie Faith Cranor is the Director and Bosch Distinguished Professor of the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute and FORE Systems University Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. She directs the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS) and co-directs the Privacy Engineering masters program. In 2016 she served as Chief Technologist at the US Federal Trade Commission. She co-founded Wombat Security Technologies.
She has authored over 200 research papers on online privacy, usable security, and other topics. She has played a key role in building the usable privacy and security research community, having co-edited the seminal book Security and Usability (O’Reilly 2005) and founded the Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS). She also co-founded the Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR).
She is a fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and AAAS and a member of the ACM CHI Academy.
Brice Dobson is a technical privacy practitioner with broad experience in privacy engineering, data protection, and enterprise IT. In his current role at The Coca-Cola Company, he leads a team of privacy operations and engineering professionals focused on operationalizing privacy by design, risk assessment, and compliance. He also plays a key role in the company’s AI governance efforts and serves as a technical consultant on trustworthy AI systems.
Before joining Coca-Cola, Brice held progressively responsible roles at Target Corporation and LeasePlan Group. He is currently a graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology and holds several professional certifications, including IAPP’s Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP), CISSP, and is a Microsoft Certified Cybersecurity Architect Expert.
Emelin Flores is a Senior Privacy Engineer at 1Password, where she specializes in technical privacy by design and privacy research. With extensive experience in privacy engineering, she has previously worked at TikTok, where she co-created the company’s first privacy bug bounty program and led a team focused on offensive privacy assessments. emelin also held a role at Google, where she conducted privacy audits, data anonymization assessments, and built privacy controls into product development. They hold a B.A. in Information Technology from Rutgers University and hold several professional certifications, such as the IAPP Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT). Outside of privacy their work focuses on empowering LGBTQ+ students or non-traditional folks to break into tech by introducing them to privacy and security through organizations like Out In Tech.
Chris Gorog, CEO BlockFrame Inc, Co-Chair IEEE Digital Privacy Initiative, Published Author, Multiple patent holder, Co-Founder of Blockchain Development Community, Founder of International Alliance of Trust Chains, Cybersecurity and Blockchain SME to the State of Colorado Legislator, the Host of the New Cyber Frontier Podcast, and Research Partner with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Arizona State University, University of Colorado, University of Denver, and Colorado State University.
Dr. Gorog is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional with over 30 years in the cybersecurity design industry, a prior director of cybersecurity programs at Colorado Technical University, and program manager for Blockchain research at University of Colorado Colorado Springs. He is a graduate of the US Navy Nuclear Power Program, holds a Bachelor of Computer Engineering, Master of Business Administration, Master of Computer Science in Computer System Security from Colorado Technical University and PhD in Cybersecurity Engineering at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. His work with distribution of trust for next generation security and privacy engages several community groups and international organizations in support of research for the State of Colorado to enable security and privacy for government programs.
Nicholas Napp is a Senior Member of IEEE, chair of the Digital Privacy Framework and Foundation sub-group, and the founder of Xmark Labs, LLC. He is a technical and marketing hybrid, with a strong focus on narrative. Nicholas has brought over 40 products to market and has authored and co-authored articles on many topics including digital transformation, affordable digital twins, IoT, and the digital divide. His clients have included multiple startups, as well as multinationals like Apple, AT&T, IEEE, HTC, Microsoft, Sony, Tencent and others. He is a frequent speaker at events worldwide such as COMPSAC and many others.
Norman Sadeh (normsadeh.org) is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He co-founded and co-directs CMU’s Privacy Engineering Program, and also co-founded and for ten years co-directed CMU’s PhD Program in Societal Computing.
Norman served as lead principal investigator on two of the largest domestic research projects in privacy, the Usable Privacy Policy Project (usableprivacy.org) and the Personalized Privacy Assistant Project (privacyassistant.org). He was also founding CEO and, until its acquisition by Proofpoint, chairman and chief scientist of Wombat Security Technologies, a company that defined the multi-billion dollar user-oriented cybersecurity market. Technologies Norman developed with colleagues at CMU and Wombat are used to protect tens of millions of users around the world against cybersecurity attacks such as phishing. Dr. Sadeh’s privacy research has been credited with influencing the development of privacy-enhancing solutions at companies such as Apple, Google and Facebook, and results of his research have informed activities at regulatory agencies, including the Federal Trade Commission and the California Office of the Attorney General. In the late nineties Norman also served as Chief Scientist of the EUR 550 million European Union’s e-Commerce initiative, which included all pan-European research in cybersecurity and privacy as well as contributions to several major European public policy initiatives.
Peter E. Sand currently serves in the Privacy Office of the US Department of Homeland Security. Over ten years ago, Pete also worked the DHS Privacy Office – from as soon as he could get into the department in 2004 until 2014. In that “start-up” phase of the department, Pete helped create the DHS Privacy Office, served as acting privacy officer for the Science & Technology Directorate, the Office of the Chief Information Officer, the Chief Information Security Officer, the early cyber team, the early information sharing team, the joint DHS-NSA coordination taskforce, and represented privacy in many emerging technology initiatives inside the department and across government.
Before all that, Pete worked at the state level as the CIO and a Chief Deputy Attorney General for the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General. For roughly ten years Pete created and led a unique hybrid organization that brought together infrastructure, operational, public-facing, and emerging technology to improve organizational efficiencies and help modernize criminal, civil, and consumer protection legal services. But that was several lifetimes ago, when the Internet was still called “the information superhighway” and the “world wide web.”
Pete also worked at the local government level with the City of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia judiciary, and various volunteer organizations focusing on: citizen-support, small business modernization, and “legal + new tech” advisory groups supporting the artists and arts organizations. He also worked in a legal-tech think tank that made pragmatic use of “early days” internet technology, and helped bar associations and CLE teams educate the legal profession on the new challenges and capabilities the internet offered lawyers.
For the last ten years, Pete worked in the private sector – starting privacy offices for MGM Resorts International, Boyd Gaming, Amazon’s Lab 123, and Indiana University – all of which are still running today.
Today, Pete is back with the DHS Privacy Office working on privacy public policy solutions for emerging technologies – applying privacy principles, regulations, and compliance lifecycles to the new uses of new tech and fitting policy and technology architectures together to make it easy for people in all parts of the department to “use data right.”
Jaideep Vaidya is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Information Systems at Rutgers University, the Director of the Rutgers Institute for Data Science, Learning, and Applications. His research is at the intersection of privacy, security, data mining, data management, and artificial intelligence. He has published over 200 technical papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and has received best paper awards from the premier conferences in data mining, databases, digital government, security, and informatics. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACMI, IAHSI, IEEE, and IFIP as well as an ACM Distinguished Scientist. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, proposed the IEEE Transactions on Privacy, and is the 2024 Vice President of Publication for IEEE Computer Society. Notably, the team he led won the first prize in the US-UK Privacy Enhancing Technologies Challenge in the Financial Crime Track in 2023.