Ada Lerner

(she/her/hers or they/them/theirs)

Assistant Professor, Director of BS in Cybersecurity Program

Ada Lerner
  • Human–computer interaction
  • Security and privacy
  • PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
  • MS in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
  • BA in Computer Science, Amherst College

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.

  • Privacy and Activism in the Transgender Community

    Citation: Ada Lerner, Helen Yuxun He, Anna Kawakami, Silvia Catherine Zeamer, and Roberto Hoyle. 2020. Privacy and Activism in the Transgender Community. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–13. DOI: 10.1145/3313831.3376339

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