teaching & talks

Courses taught and academic presentations.

Teaching Experience

Cornell Tech

  • CS 5436 / INFO 5303: Privacy in the Digital Age (Fall 2024)
    Teaching Assistant for Prof. Helen Nissenbaum and Prof. Vitaly Shmatikov
    Graded assignments, created an in-class participatory assignment on privacy policy evaluation, and taught a lecture on usable privacy and design manipulation.

    This course introduces students to privacy technologies and surveys the current state of digital privacy from multiple perspectives, including technology, law, policy, ethics, economics, and surveillance.

  • INFO 5345 / CS 5424 / ECE 5413: Developing and Designing Interactive Devices (Fall 2023)
    Teaching Assistant for Prof. Wendy Ju
    Revised all lab scripts and class content in the interactive lab repository for updated hardware and more advanced libraries, enhancing usability. Established class infrastructure and managed grading.

    This course provides an introduction to the human-centered and technical workings behind interactive devices ranging from cell phones and video controllers to household appliances and smart cars. This is a hands-on, lab-based course. Topics include electronics prototyping, interface prototyping, sensors and actuators, microcontroller development, physical prototyping and user testing. For the final project, students will build a functional interactive device of their own design, using single-board Linux computers, embedded microcontrollers, and other electronics components.

Cornell University

  • INFO 3450 / COMM 3450 / INFO 5355: User Experience & User Research (Fall 2021)
    Teaching Assistant for Prof. Gilly Leshed
    Led in class activities. Oversaw grading activities.

    This course focuses on user experience design (UX) and the life cycle of interface design from the user perspective. We will discuss key aspects of the human-centered design process: understanding, analyzing, and formalizing user needs, exploring possible design solutions to address user needs, creating prototypes to externalize design ideas, and evaluating the usability of these prototypes.

Invited Talks

  • Bright Patterns: Towards Extra Ethical User Experience Design (March 2024)
    Digital Life Initiative, Cornell Tech, USA · 📑 Slides
    Dark Patterns have received significant attention from the academic Human-Computer Interaction community since 2010, when Brignull launched darkpatterns.org and initially described them as “tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn’t mean to.” In this presentation, DLI Doctoral Fellow Hauke Sandhaus will introduce two ongoing projects: firstly, his definition of Bright Patterns as an antonym to Dark Patterns, and secondly, an empirical study examining how the evaluation standards of user experience designers do not necessarily guide them towards ethical design practices. Read more >

  • Conceptualizing Bright Patterns (January 2024)
    Lorentz Workshop on Fair Patterns, Leiden University, Netherlands · 📑 Slides
    This workshop brings together legal, human-computer interaction and economic experts coming from academia, businesses and enforcement agencies. Dark patterns, or deceptive design, are present on an overwhelming majority of digital services: they do not only clutter the interfaces of websites and mobile applications, but they are also widespread in emerging technologies such as voice assistants that provide personalized recommendations. Read more >

  • Towards Prototyping Driverless Vehicle Behaviors, City Design, and Policies Simultaneously (October 2023)
    Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, USA · 📑 Slides
    This Governing Knowledge Commons (GKC) workshop, to be followed by a book collecting case studies focused on Smart Cities and knowledge commons, offers a strategic opportunity to advance knowledge on how cities should respond to the challenges presented by digital networked technologies. Emerging smart cities will require trusted governance and engaged citizens. Integrating surveillance, AI, automation and smart tech within basic infrastructure as well as public and private services and spaces raises a complex set of ethical, economic, political, social, and technological questions Read more >