Daniel Smullen About Me Employment History Projects Publications and Presentations Email Me View my GitHub Download my Full CV Dr. Daniel Smullen is currently an Applied Scientist working at Amazon with devices and services teams to solve complex data privacy and security problems.
I'm a proud alumni of Carnegie Mellon University Cylab, where I worked with the founders of the first (and only) Privacy Engineering academic program in the world as part of my doctoral and postdoctoral work. My unique academic training and R&D career has led to patents and a strong track record of publications in top-tier venues within the privacy engineering, PETs, ML/AI, NLP, and HCI domains. My work has given me the privilege of partnering with policymakers, regulators, government/military sponsors, and
My daily duties require me to wear many hats; consultant, problem-solver, scientist, engineer, and thought leader. My work spans Usable Privacy and Security, incorporating mixed-methods methodologies seen in behavioral economics, user-centered design, requirements engineering, applied machine learning, and empirical software engineering. I solve social and technical problems using interdisciplinary research methods. My goal is to help the world develop more usable, secure, privacy-preserving, trustworthy so