I’m pleased to report that I have accepted an offer to join Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College as a post-doctoral fellow. 
At Carnegie Mellon, I will be working with Alessandro Acquisti. I have been following Alessandro’s excellent work on privacy and technology for many years, so I am thrilled to join his team and have him as a mentor.
Alessandro’s team has extensive experience studying privacy in online social networks. Alessandro and Ralph Gross wrote one of the earliest (and most cited) Facebook privacy papers: Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook. Last summer, the team published a truly head-turning study, showing that information gleaned from social network profiles could be used to predict social security numbers. Most recently, Alessandro’s work was featured in Jeffrey Rosen’s New York Times Magazine article The Web Means the End of Forgetting.
I look forward to building on my current areas of research – privacy, identity and support in social networks – while being exposed to new opportunities and new challenges at CMU. Speaking of challenges, the next challenge is a dissertation defense (later this fall) and then a move to Pittsburgh. It has been a while since I’ve been to Pittsburgh, so I’m open to advice!
Congratulations! It looks like a very exciting move for you.
Warmest congrats!
For a moment I thought I had missed the news from your defence, so do keep us up-to-date in this area too :)
Congratulations Fred!
Ya’ll are too kind! Thanks!
Ismael: The defense is coming…looming….a few months out. I will post notice here ;)
Congratulations! We’ll miss you and your fam.
Living in a college town while not attending can be sad. So many cool people kick ass and leave.
MUCH LUCK!
That’s great news, Fred. Congratulations!
Great news!
Congratulations Fred, that sounds like a great opportunity! Enjoy Pittsburgh, apparently the have sandwiches with chips on them.
Congratulations! While Pittsburgh has its downsides (especially after a few years in Carolina, it’s gonna seem damn cold here this winter…), I’ve generally enjoyed the 5 years I’ve lived here.
If you’ll have a vehicle, your place-to-live options are a bit more open, but your CMU id card will serve as a bus pass, allowing you to ride anywhere on the (soon to be deeply cut) local bus network. If you can give some idea of what you’ll be looking for in a neighborhood, I can definitely make some suggestions…. Pittsburgh has several dozen very distinct neighborhoods, not to mention several dozen more suburbs (there are 130 municipalities in Allegheny County’s 730 square miles…).
(by the way, the sandwiches with chips on—and coleslaw, don’t forget, they come with coleslaw, too—must have been a fabulous innovation for all-night truckers in 1927 or whenever, but they’re just freakin’ disgusting now. Primanti’s is nasty.)
Way to go, Fred!
Just saw this, congrats! The economics of privacy, tasty.