Joseph Calandrino

Joe Calandrino is an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, with a joint appointment in the College of Engineering (Engineering and Public Policy) and the School of Computer Science (Software and Societal Systems Department). He is also affiliated with CMU's CyLab Security and Privacy Institute. He previously served as the acting chief science and technology advisor and acting chief AI officer at the U.S. Department of Justice and as research director in the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, where he won the Bureau Director's award for his service. He is interested in the application of computer security, privacy, and related computer science research methods to address public policy issues. He served as program committee co-chair for USENIX Security 2023 and SOUPS 2020-2021, co-founded the Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro), and won the best reviewer award from the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2020. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University, where he was affiliated with the Center for Information Technology Policy. He holds master's degrees in Computer Science from Princeton and the University of Virginia, and he received a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Virginia.