About the IAPP

Jessica is a Professor of the Practice in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern where she leads research in privacy, usable security and AI safety and teaches courses in cybersecurity. Prior to Northeastern, she was a Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase leading research and technology development for various areas of customer safety including scams, financial abuse and the safe use of generative AI. Previously, she was a Research Scientist at Google leading teams in areas such as enterprise security, privacy and social media abuse. Prior to that, she was an area manager at Xerox PARC, and a research scientist at Bell Labs and RSA Labs. She serves regularly on the program committees and boards of ACM and IEEE sponsored security/privacy conferences and journals. Jessica holds a PhD in Mathematics from U. C. Berkeley.