Curriculum Vitae
Patrick Gage Kelley
HCI, privacy & safety researcher
My research is of humans interacting with technology (the internet, AI). Most often I’m interested in questions of safety and privacy, which require technical knowledge of the systems, interpretation of varied human behaviors, and the policy, legal, and societal contexts these interactions happen within. This interdisciplinary work most often lands within Human-Computer Interaction (
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Last updated September 2026
Experience
2016–2026
- Research Lead, Trust & Safety, AI Research & Standards — 2021–2026
- Counter-Abuse Team, Security Research — 2019–2021
- Privacy UX Research — 2016–2019
University of New Mexico
2012–2016
- Assistant Professor, tenure-track, of Computer Science, School of Engineering
- Director, EXIT Studio
- Affiliate faculty: Organizations, Information & Learning Sciences; ARTS Lab
Education
Ph.D., Computation, Organizations & Society
Carnegie Mellon University — Thesis: "Designing Privacy Notices: Supporting User Understanding and Control." Co-advisors: Lorrie Faith Cranor and Norman Sadeh
2013
M.S., Computation, Organizations & Society
Carnegie Mellon University
2010
B.S., Computer Engineering & B.S., Creative Writing and Literature
Rochester Institute of Technology
2006
Publications
102 publications since 2007 — see the full list on the Papers page.
Honors & Awards
Test of Time Award, Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC)
for “A Conundrum of Permissions: Installing Applications on an Android Smartphone” (2012)
2025
Test of Time Award, 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
for “Guess Again (and Again and Again): Measuring Password Strength by Simulating Password-Cracking Algorithms” (2012)
2023
Best Paper Honorable Mention, ACM CHI
for “Practicing Information Sensibility: How Gen Z Engages with Online Information”
2023
Distinguished Paper Award, USENIX Security
for “Why wouldn’t someone think of democracy as a target?”: Security Practices & Challenges of People Involved with U.S. Political Campaigns
2021
School of Engineering Junior Faculty Teaching Award, University of New Mexico
2016
UNM Teaching Fellow
2015–16
Google Faculty Research Award
2014
Third Place, ONC Digital Privacy Notice Challenge
for “Digital Privacy Notice Generator”, May 2014
2014
Best Paper Honorable Mention, ACM CHI
for “Of Passwords and People: Measuring the Effect of Password-Composition Policies”
2011
Honorable Mention, Best Student Paper, INTERACT
for “An Investigation into Facebook Friend Grouping”
2011
Privacy Papers for Policy Makers, Future of Privacy Forum
for “Standardizing Privacy Notices: An Online Study of the Nutrition Label Approach”
2010
1st Place, Graduate Research, ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals
for “A ‘Nutrition Label’ for Privacy”
2010
1st Place, Graduate Research, ACM SIGCHI Student Research CompetitionView on ACM DL →
for “Designing a Privacy Label: Assisting Consumer Understanding of Online Privacy Practices”
2009
Honorable Mention, NYU-Poly Cyber Security Awareness Week Research Competition
for “Designing a Privacy Label”
2009
Service
Leadership & Organizing
- Co-organizer, Architecting the Future of Trust & Safety Research — Google Trust & Safety research convening, London, May 2026
- Karat Award Committee, SOUPS, 2026
- Co-organizer, Postcards from Tokyo — Google Trust & Safety research convening, Google Tokyo, co-located with CHI 2025
- Co-organizer, “What is Safety?”: Building Bridges Across Approaches to Digital Risks and Harms — workshop at CSCW 2024
- Co-organizer, Google Responsible AI Summit, AI Research Day — Paris, October 2024
- HCIC Governing Board Representative from Google, 2024–2026
- Co-lead, Google Academic Research Awards (GARA), Trust & Safety, 2023–2026
- SOUPS General Chair, 2023–2026
- HCIC Event Co-Chair, with Allison McDonald and Rahul Chatterjee, 2023
- CHI Social Justice Co-Chair, 2022
- SIGCHI Sustainability Committee, 2022–2024
- Supported the Google Faculty Research Awards and Google PhD Fellowship programs, 2019–2023
- Steering Committee, World Economic Forum “Redesigning Notice & Consent for Data Protection” project, 2019–2020
- SOUPS Steering Committee, 2017–2022, 2023–present
- SIGCHI Operations Committee, 2016–2020
- ACM SIGCHI Conference Management Committee, 2015–2016
- SOUPS Publicity Chair, 2015–2016
- Organizer, “The Future of Networked Privacy: Challenges and Opportunities” workshop, 2015
- ACM SIGCHI Executive Committee, Adjunct Chair for Media + Brand, 2013–2015
- Advisory group to the California Attorney General for Privacy on the Go, guidelines for mobile application developers, January 2013
Program Committees
- USENIX Security Symposium — 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025; Research Ethics Committee, 2022; PC mentor, 2023, 2025
- ACM CHI — 2014, 2019
- AAAI/ACM AIES — 2021, 2023, 2025
- MetaCRiSP (co-located with IEEE S&P), 2026
- AAAI Spring Symposium on Privacy-Enhancing Artificial Intelligence and Language Technologies (PAL), 2019
- Workshop on Usable Security (USEC), 2018
- AAAI Fall Symposium on Privacy and Language Technologies (PLT), 2016
- The Web Conference (WWW), Security and Privacy track, 2015
- Networked Privacy workshop, 2015
- Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), 2014
- Privacy and Security in Online Social Media (PSOSM), 2013
Reviewing
Conferences: CHI (2012, 2013, 2015, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026; case studies 2023), CSCW (2013, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023), FAccT (2021), EuroUSEC (2020), PoPETs (2020), UIST (2019, 2021), SOUPS, UbiComp (2011, 2013, 2014), DIS (2014), ICIS (2013), WWW (2015)
Journals: ACM Transactions on Computer–Human Interaction, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, IEEE Security & Privacy, Information Systems Research, IET Information Security, IEEE Pervasive Computing, IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine
Reviewer, NAIRR AI Education Fellowship applications, 2025 · Research content reviews, Safer with Google, 2025
Invited Participation
- MLCommons AI & Privacy Meeting, invited workshop, March 2026
- “Collective Governance of AI in Newsrooms” workshop, Brown University, April 2026
- Technical Agentic AI Safety Standards Workshop, November 2025
- Security and Human Behavior (SHB) workshop, invite-only, 2019
- Supporting contributor, SIGCHI HCI Policy report, 2016
University of New Mexico
- University Libraries Committee, 2013–2016
- CS Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2013–2016
- CS ABET Committee, 2013–2016
- CS Faculty Search Committee, 2013
- School of Engineering, Farris Engineering Center Master Planning Committee
- School of Engineering Academic Council, 2014–2015
- UNM Service-Learning Advisory Board
- UNM Liberal Arts & Integrative Studies Faculty Advisory Committee
Teaching, Consulting & Outreach
- Over a decade of STEM outreach with middle and high school students, including Andrew’s Leap, SWE’s Vitality Taskforce, RIT’s TEAK project, and the Expanding Your Horizons workshop
- Active in the art community — helped facilitate the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry’s ART && CODE workshops and taught information visualization to art students
Selected Talks
Impact@SOUPS Panel
Panelist, Impact@SOUPS 2026 workshop, Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), Hannover, Germany, August 2026
Career Panel
Panelist, Johns Hopkins pre-USENIX Security Workshop, 2026
Architecting the Future of Trust & Safety Research
Panel Moderator, Google Research event, London, May 2026
Label Design
Invited Workshop Talk, MLCommons GAP Kickoff, May 2026
Talk at the Google booth, ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Barcelona, Spain, April 2026
Frontier Lab Panel
Panelist, Workshop on AI and Mental Health, Partnership on AI, March 2026
Understanding Generative AI and Trust & Safety
United States Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI), Washington, DC, 2026
Fraud & Scams Panel
Panelist, Marketplace Risk New York Conference, New York, NY, September 2025
Google UX Privacy & Legal AI Guidance
Speaker, UXU Disruptive AI UX Summit, September 2025
Talk at the Google booth, ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan, April 2025
A Conundrum of PermissionsRead / watch →
Keynote and Test of Time Award Talk, Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC), 2025
Beyond the Sparkle
Invited Talk, Google Paris Responsible AI Summit, Paris, February 2025
Exploring Model Cards & AI Transparency
Workshop, Google Paris Responsible AI Summit, Paris, February 2025
AI & Society Roundtable — Research Ideation
Facilitator, CAHSI, 2025
How Generative AI Empowers Attackers and Defenders Across the Trust & Safety Landscape
Safer with Google, 2025
Explainability Workshop and Intro to Model Cards
Invited Workshop, AI Connect Brazil, August 2024
Reflecting on Twenty Years of Usable Privacy and Security
Panel Moderator, Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), Philadelphia, PA, August 2024
Safety By Design
Led accepted workshop, TrustCon 2024, San Francisco, CA, July 2024
Building & Launching AI Safety Practices Panel
Panelist, TrustCon 2024, San Francisco, CA, July 2024
Safety By Design
Led accepted workshop, Trust & Safety Forum, Lille, France, March 2024
Presentation, FTC PrivacyCon 2024, March 2024
Safety & Privacy Index
Safer with Google, 2024
Explainable AI
AI Symposium, Washington, DC, November 16, 2023
EU AI Policy and What It Means for Big Tech
Invited Lecture, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, November 13, 2023
Keynote, "AI through the Eyes of Gen Z" Workshop
Keynote, CSCW 2023 Workshop on AI through the Eyes of Gen Z, Online, October 2023
"There will be less privacy, of course": How and Why People in 10 Countries Expect AI Will Affect Privacy in the FutureRead / watch →
Conference Talk, Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2023
"There will be less privacy, of course": How and Why People in 10 Countries Expect AI Will Affect Privacy in the Future
Google Hibiscus Privacy Summit, February 2023
Generative Futures
Panelist, Google Research Interactive Summit on Generative Futures, 2023
Understanding Exposure & Belief in Health Information Throughout the Covid-19 Pandemic
Invited Talk, Human-Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC), 2022
Lightning Talk, TTC Labs Summit 2022, May 2022
Explainable AI
Talk to the Responsible Innovation Fellows cohort, Google, May 2022
Around the World in 500 Days of Pandemic MisinformationRead / watch →
Invited Talk, USENIX Enigma, 2022
Exciting, Useful, Worrying, Futuristic: Public Perception of Artificial Intelligence in 8 CountriesWatch →
Conference Talk, AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES), Virtual, May 2021
Notice, Consent and Human-Centered Design — Solving the Human–Technology Interaction Conundrum
Panelist, Stanford / World Economic Forum, San Francisco, CA, October 2019
Understanding User Facing Threats in Security & Privacy
Invited Lecture, Northwestern University, October 19, 2018
An Inconvenient Trust: User Attitudes Toward Security and Usability Tradeoffs for Key-Directory Encryption Systems
Invited Talk, Black Hat USA, 2016
Patents
User-Controllable Learning of PoliciesView Patent →
Norman Sadeh, Paul Hankes Drielsma, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Patrick Gage Kelley — US Patent 8,423,483, 2013