L. Jean Camp

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Linda Jean Camp is an American computer scientist whose research concerns information security, with a focus on human-centered design, autonomy, and safety. [1] She has also made important contributions to risk communication, internet governance, and the economics of security. She is the Bank of America Distinguished Professorship in Security Analysis in the department of Software and Information Systems at UNC-Charlotte. She was previously a professor of informatics in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington, where she directs the Center for Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. [2]

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Education and career

Camp earned a double bachelor's degree in mathematics and electrical engineering from the University of North Carolina in 1989, also working as a nuclear power engineer in the last year of her studies. She continued at the University of North Carolina for a master's degree in electrical engineering, supported as a Patricia Harris Fellow in the university's Optical Interconnects & Computer Generated Holography Laboratory. Next, she went to Carnegie Mellon University for graduate study in engineering and public policy, completing a Ph.D. there in 1996 with the dissertation Privacy & Reliability in Internet Commerce. [3]

After a year of research at Sandia National Laboratories, she became an assistant professor and later associate professor in the Harvard Kennedy School from 1997 to 2004. She moved to Indiana University in 2004, and was promoted to full professor in 2011, after a year on leave as an IEEE Congressional Fellow in the office of North Carolina representative Bob Etheridge. [3]

In 2016, Camp was a part of a small computer group which was involved in analysis of various DNS logs, making a relation between Trump Organization and Alfa Bank. [4] She has published the details of her finding at her website, including a graph which shows the timeline of the connections made between the two parties. [5] She also advocated against the subpoena filed by Alfa Bank requiring to identify the security researchers, who initially found the logs. In November 2020, the Indiana Court quashed the subpoena filed by Alfa Bank resulting in the identites of the researchers being kept a secret. [6]

Books

Camp is the author or editor of:

Recognition

Camp was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2017, "for substantial contributions to the economics of information security, online risk communication, and human-centered computer security and privacy, including for populations often excluded in system design". [9] She was elected as an IEEE Fellow in the 2018 class of fellows, "for research in human-centered risk and security". [10] She was named a 2021 ACM Fellow, "for contributions to computer security and e-crime measures". [11]

References

  1. "Jean Camp", People of ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, March 10, 2022, retrieved 2023-11-01
  2. "Jean Camp", Profiles, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, retrieved 2023-11-01
  3. 1 2 Curriculum vitae , retrieved 2023-11-01
  4. Jose Pagliery (March 22, 2017). "Russian bank sends threatening letter to computer scientist". CNN. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  5. "Transparent Network Data". www.ljean.com. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  6. "Alfa Bank v. Doe - Court Order Granting Motion to Quash". Electronic Frontier Foundation. November 23, 2020. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  7. Reviews of Trust and Risk in Internet Commerce:
  8. Reviews of Economics of Identity Theft:
    • Stefan Fafinski, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, doi:10.1108/14779960911004525
    • Tomas Lipinski, Journal of Information Ethics,
  9. "SPICE Professor Jean Camp Named AAAS Fellow", Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, November 20, 2017, retrieved 2023-11-01
  10. "Fellows by IEEE Society or Technical Council: IEEE Computer Society", IEEE Fellows Directory, retrieved 2023-11-01
  11. ACM Names 71 Fellows for Computing Advances that are Driving Innovation, Association for Computing Machinery, January 19, 2022, retrieved 2022-01-19