About
 Sonia Chiasson - Carleton University I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. As of January 2012, I have been awarded a Canada Research Chair in Human Oriented Computer Security. From 2009-2011, I was an NSERC ISSNet Post Doctoral Fellow at Carleton University. In August 2010, I was appointed Project Leader for the Human Behaviour and Computer Security project within ISSNet. At Carleton, I work with Paul van Oorschot, Robert Biddle, and the other members of the Usable Security group. I completed my PhD in December 2008. Previously, I was at the University of Saskatchewan, working with Carl Gutwin and the HCI group. From 2001 to 2005, I was also a full-time instructor for the Department of Computer Science. |
Education
PhD (2009) Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, awarded the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement.
MSc (2004) University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
BCS (1999) University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada
Service
(2011, 2012) Program committee member, ACM Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS).
(2011, 2012) Co-chair, Poster Session, ACM Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS).
(2012) Program committee member, Financial Cryptography (FC), Bonaire, February 2012.
(2011, 2012) Program committee member, USENIX Security.
(2011) Co-instructor, Experiment Design and Quantitative Methods for Usable Security Research. Half-day tutorial for the ACM Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS).
(2011) Co-organizer, The Future of User Authentication and Authorization on the Web Workshop, held in conjunction with Financial Cryptography and Data Security, St-Lucia, March 2011.
(2010) Tutorial instructor, Introduction to Usable Security, held in conjunction with the IEEE Privacy, Security, Trust Conference (PST), Ottawa, Canada, August 2010.
(2010) Co-chair, User Studies Experience Report (USER) Workshop, held in conjunction with the ACM Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), Redmond, USA, July 2010.
(2010) Co-organizer, Usable Security Workshop, Half-day workshop for Shad Valley students, July 2010.
(2010) Co-chair, Poster Session, NSERC ISSNet Internetworked Systems Security Network Annual Workshop, Ottawa, Canada, April 2010.
(2010) External reviewer, Computer Security course materials, Computer Science Department, Western Illinois University.
(2009) Co-instructor, HCI Methodology and Usable Security. Full-day tutorial for the ISSNet strategic network summer school, Montreal, Canada.
(2009) Program committee member, IEEE Privacy, Security, and Trust (PST) Graduate Student Symposium, Saint John, Canada, August 2009.
(2009-2010) Communications Officer for the Carleton University Postdoctoral Association.
(2007) Student volunteer for ACM Computer Human Interaction Conference (CHI).
(2000-2004) Organizing committee, Go For I.T. Girls and Digitized Conferences – member of organizing committees for conferences introducing high school students, especially girls, to I.T. and potential careers.
(2003) Tutorial leader, Super Saturday – led in-lab sessions about Computer Science in a program designed to bring young aboriginal students to the university campus and experience different disciplines.
Reviewing
Computer Journal
Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
Communications of the ACM
ACM Computer Human Interaction Conference (CHI)
ACM Graphical Interfaces conference (GI)
British Human Computer Interaction conference (BCS-HCI)
ACM Designing Interactive Systems conference (DIS)
ACM Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction conference (TEI)
Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)
Journal of Systems and Software
External reviewer for ACM Computer and Communications Security (CCS) and SECRYPT
Random
PADI Advanced Open Water Scuba Diver, ToastMasters Advanced Communicator Bronze, certified ZUMBA B1 and B2 instructor.