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Heather Miller

Assistant Professor, Software and Societal Systems Department

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Heather Miller is a tenure-track assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the School of Computer Science, primarily affiliated with the  Institute for Software Research. She was the co-founder and executive director of the Scala Center EPFL, where she was also a research scientist. Miller was also an assistant clinical professor in the College of Computer and Information Science Northeastern University.

Office
4128 Wean Hall
Phone
(412) 268-2748
Email
heather.miller@cs.cmu.edu

Research Interests

  • AI and ML for security
  • Applications of security and privacy
  • cloud security
  • emerging applications security
  • IoT security and privacy
  • protocol security

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Robert Mehrabian Collaborative Innovation Center (CIC)
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+1 412 268 5715

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“Hacking is like solving a puzzle. The person who solves it often gains a better understanding of the problem than its creator.” David Brumley, software security researcher in CyLab

“We hack because we care about security, and we want to protect people from potential threats by identifying problems systematically.” Yuan Tian, software security researcher in CyLab

“A world that uses facial recognition does not look like Hollywood’s Minority Report. It looks like a smarter, more pleasant experience interacting with complex computer security systems to help make a safer world for our friends, our families and our children.” Marios Savvides, director of CyLab’s Biometrics Center

“It would take people 244 hours per year to read all of the privacy policies at all of the websites they visit in one year. I study privacy policies, and I spend a lot of time reading them, and I do not spend 244 hours per year reading privacy policies.” Lorrie Cranor, director of the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Lab

“There is much to gain and benefit from this massive analysis of personal information, or big data, but there are also complex tradeoffs that come from giving away our privacy.” Alessandro Acquisti, privacy researcher in CyLab

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