Tanusree Sharma

Doctoral Student

PhD, Informatics, Illinois (in progress)

BS, Computer and Information Technology, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh

https://tanusreesharma.github.io/

Research focus

My research interests are in HCI, usable privacy, and security domain to resolve socio-technical challenges by designing and developing accessible tools with a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. The application domains I am focusing on are Blockchain technology, De-Fi, and AI.

Honors and Awards

Nomination by UIUC Grad College for Google PhD Fellowship, 2022
Virtual Grace Hopper Celebration Scholarship, 2021
USENIX Security ’21 Diversity Grants, 2021
CRA-WP Scholar (Computing Research Association for Women), 2020 & 2021
CodePath Scholar, 2020
Best Paper Award on 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things, 2020

Advisor

Yang Wang

Publications & Papers

GoogleScholar Profile

Sharma, T, Zhou, Z., Huang, Y., & Wang, Y. (2022). "It's A Blessing and A Curse": Unpacking Creators' Practices with Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and Their Communities. arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.13233.

Sharma, T., Dyer, H. A., & Bashir, M. (2021). Enabling user-centered privacy controls for mobile applications: Covid-19 perspective. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), 21(1), 1-24. (ACM Transaction 2021.)

Sharma, T, Islam, M. M., Das, A., Haque, S. T., & Ahmed, S. I. (2021, June). Privacy during Pandemic: A Global View of Privacy Practices around COVID-19 Apps. In ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (pp. 215-229). (ACM COMPASS)

Sharma, T, & Bashir, M. (2020). Use of apps in the COVID-19 response and the loss of privacy protection. Nature Medicine, 26(8), 1165-1167. (Nature Medicine)

Sharma, T, Wang, T., & Bashir, M. (2020, October). Advocating for users’ privacy protections: A case study of Covid-19 apps. In 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (pp. 1-4). (MobileHCI-20)

Sharma, T, Bambenek, J. C., & Bashir, M. (2020). Preserving privacy in cyber-physical-social systems: An anonymity and access control approach. (CPSS Workshop-20)

Sharma, T, & Bashir, M. (2020, July). Privacy apps for smartphones: An assessment of users’ preferences and limitations. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 533-546). Springer, Cham. (Human-Computer Interaction-20)