Jessica Staddon
(she/her/hers)
Professor of the Practice
Research interests
- Security and privacy
- Online safety
- Human–computer interaction
Education
- PhD in Math, UC Berkeley
- BA in Applied Math, UC Berkeley
Biography
Jessica Staddon is a professor of the practice in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Oakland.
Staddon’s work focuses on AI safety, answering questions like how users can safely make decisions about security and privacy with assistance from large language models. She spent almost 25 years in industry, leading research in safety, security, and privacy for Xerox PARC, Google, YouTube, and most recently, JPMorgan Chase. Staddon has published papers on topics ranging from intimate partner financial abuse to multi-recipient encryption to social network privacy. She served as department editor for IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine for seven years and regularly serves on the program committees of leading privacy and security conferences such as The Web Conference and the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security.
Staddon joined Northeastern in 2024 to bolster the school’s security, privacy, and AI faculty, and to help develop the Oakland campus. Her role is a flexible one, encompassing teaching, research, and partnership development.
In her free time, Staddon enjoys hiking and volunteering at her local animal shelter.
Recent publications
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Assessment of LLM Responses to End-user Security Questions
Citation: Vijay Prakash, Kevin Lee, Arkaprabha Bhattacharya, Danny Yuxing Huang, Jessica Staddon. (2024). Assessment of LLM Responses to End-user Security Questions CoRR, abs/2411.14571. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.14571 -
Can LLMs be Scammed? A Baseline Measurement Study
Citation: Udari Madhushani Sehwag, Kelly Patel, Francesca Mosca, Vineeth Ravi, Jessica Staddon. (2024). Can LLMs be Scammed? A Baseline Measurement Study CoRR, abs/2410.13893. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.13893 -
Shortchanged: Uncovering and Analyzing Intimate Partner Financial Abuse in Consumer Complaints
Citation: Arkaprabha Bhattacharya, Kevin Lee, Vineeth Ravi, Jessica Staddon, Rosanna Bellini. (2024). Shortchanged: Uncovering and Analyzing Intimate Partner Financial Abuse in Consumer Complaints CHI, 354:1-354:20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642033
