Team

Alessandro Acquisti is a Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy at the Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University. His research combines economics, decision research, and data mining to investigate the role of privacy in a digital society. His studies have spearheaded the economic analysis of privacy, the application of behavioral economics to the understanding of consumer privacy valuations and decision-making, and the investigation of privacy and personal disclosures in online social networks.

Cristobal Cheyre joins Cornell Information Science as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2019 after completing a post-doctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University. Cheyre’s research focuses on the economic, strategic, and organizational implications of the technologies that are shaping the data economy. Following completion of his PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, he spent two years in Chile as Executive Director of “The Clover 2030 Engineering Strategy”, a strategic initiative to promote entrepreneurship and innovation education, applied research, and technology transfer at the School of Engineering of P. Universidad Catolica de Chile.

Li Jiang is an assistant professor of marketing at the George Washington University School of Business (GWSB). Dr. Jiang joined GW in fall 2018, and her research focuses on consumer behavior in the growing digital domain, especially psychology of technology, information search and disclosure, and privacy. She received her Ph.D. in Marketing from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA. Her work has been published in Management Science, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and several top business and psychology journals. She has received media coverage from Time, Science Daily, and Scientific American, among others.

Florian Schaub is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information. His research focuses on empowering users to effectively manage their privacy in complex socio-technological systems. His research interests span privacy, human-computer interaction, mobile and ubiquitous computing, and the Internet of Things. Before joining the University of Michigan, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his doctoral degree and Diplom in Computer Science from the University of Ulm, Germany, and a Bachelor in Information Technology from Deakin University, Australia.

Cristiana Firullo is a PhD student in Information Science at Cornell University and a visiting scholar in the Department of Economics at Stanford. Her research applies behavioral economics and industrial organization tools to study online user behavior and the regulation of digital markets. Previously, she worked as a consultant in antitrust and litigation in the digital sector in the UK (Oxera Consulting LLP) and as a researcher in applied microeconomics at the Innocenzo Gasparini Center for Economic Research (Bocconi University).

Yucheng Li is a Ph.D. student in Information Systems and Management at Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University. His research explores the intersection of economics, digital privacy, and human-computer interaction. He holds a Master’s degree in Information Systems Management from Heinz College and a Bachelor’s degree in Data Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Nancy Xing is a software developer at Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University, with a B.A. in Computer Science from Bowdoin College. Her work combines technical applications with the social and behavioral sciences. Previously, she has conducted research in cognitive psychology at the Lexicon Lab (Bowdoin College), and online privacy research in the REUSE program (Carnegie Mellon University).