Jessica Staddon

About

Jessica Staddon is a professor of the practice in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Oakland. Staddon’s work focuses on AI safety, answering questions like how users can safely make decisions about security and privacy with assistance from large language models. She spent almost 25 years in industry, leading research in safety, security, and privacy for Xerox PARC, Google, YouTube, and most recently, JPMorgan Chase. Staddon has published papers on topics ranging from intimate partner financial abuse to multi-recipient encryption to social network privacy. She served as department editor for IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine for seven years and regularly serves on the program committees of leading privacy and security conferences such as The Web Conf

Education

• PhD in Math, UC Berkeley
• BA in Applied Math, UC Berkeley