Curriculum Vitae

Personal information

Bart Piet Knijnenburg

Email: bart@usabart.nl (personal)

bartk@clemson.edu (academic)

Current position

Dean’s Professor in Human-Centered Computing (Associate Professor)

School of Computing, College of Engineering and Science, Clemson University, August 2021 – now

Previous position: Assistant Professor, August 2015 – August 2021

Research Grants (PI: $2.68M total)

PI: CAREER: Leveraging Recommendations for Self-Actualization (546K, single PI)

NSF CISE HCC CAREER grant, June 2021 – May 2026

PI: A Research News Recommender Infrastructure with Live Users for Algorithm and Interface Experimentation (PI: $150K, $2M total)

NSF CCRI: New grant, with Joseph Konstan (University of Minnesota), Robin Burke (University of Colorado Boulder), Edward Malthouse (Northwestern University) and Michael Ekstrand (Boise State University), February 2023 – September 2025

Co-PI: Maximizing Data Utility and Participant Privacy through Usable, Secure Data Workflows for Human-Centered AI Research (co-PI: 228K, $600K total)

NSF CICI UCSS grant, with Kelly Caine (Clemson) and Susan McGregor (Columbia University), September 2022 – August 2025

Transferred grant (PI): Characterizing Inclusive Strategies that Retain Black Students in Computer Science to Graduation and Beyond (PI: $394K, $460 total)

NSF DUE IUSE grant, originally managed by Eileen Kraemer, in collaboration with Kinnis Gosha (Morehouse College), October 2021 – September 2024

Co-PI: Development and Pilot Testing of a Decision-Making Training Intervention for Older Adults (PI: $1K, $10K total)

CU SUCCEEDS grant, with Kaileigh Byrne (Clemson) and Lesley Ross (Clemson), March 2023 – Febraury 2023

Co-PI: Designing digital privacy education interventions for rural and urban older adults (co-PI: $45K, 100K total)

Meta Research Award, January 2022 – December 2022

As advisor (to Reza Ghaiumy Anaraky): Targeted Privacy Comics for Adults of all Ages and Levels of Literacy (two years’ tuition + stipend)

Facebook PhD Fellowship, August 2021 –­ December 2022

Co-PI: Clemson University’s STEM Teacher Learning Progression (co-PI: $205K, $4.10M total)

US Department of Education SEED grant, September 2020 – August 2023

Co-PI: Mathematically-grounded metaphors to teach AI-related cybersecurity (co-PI: $112K, $336K total)

NSF CISE SaTC-EDU EAGER grant and REU supplement, with Kelly Caine (Clemson) and Nicole Bannister (Clemson), August 2020 – July 2022

As advisor (to Moses Namara): Reimagining Privacy Policies (two years’ tuition + stipend)

Facebook PhD Fellowship, August 2020 –­ May 2022

PI: Reconsidering Ads in Social Media: A Self-Actualization Approach ($50K, single PI)

January 2020 – December 2020, Facebook Research Award

As advisor (to Daricia Wilkinson): Google Women Techmakers’ fellowship ($10K stipend)

Google Fellowship, June 2019 –­ Aug 2019

As advisor (to Daricia Wilkinson): Small Islands, Big Problems: Exploring Digital Defense Strategies for Caribbean Women (two years’ tuition + stipend)

Facebook PhD Fellowship, August 2019 –­ May 2021

As advisor (to Moses Namara): A User-Tailored Privacy Approach for Enhanced User Privacy Support (two years’ tuition + stipend)

Facebook Emerging Scholars Fellowship, August 2017 –­ May 2019

PI: Privacy for intelligent training systems ($722K, single PI)

US Army research contract, August 2016 ­– January 2020

PI: Using process tracing to improve household IoT users’ privacy decisions (PI: $180K, $882K total)

NSF CISE SaTC collaborative EAGER grant, with Alfred Kobsa (UCI) and Martijn Willemsen (TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands), January 2017 – August 2019

PI: Recommender Systems of Self-Actualization ($175K, single PI)

NSF CISE CHS Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) grant, September 2017 – June 2019

PI: Improving household Internet-of-Things users’ privacy decisions ($50K, single PI)

Samsung Research America research gift, January 2016 – December 2016

Student Fellowship (at UC Irvine): A User-Tailored Approach to Privacy Decision Support (two years’ tuition + stipend)

Google PhD Fellowship, awarded to 39 of the “most promising young academics in the world”, September 2014 – June 2016

Publications (4800+ citations, h-index: 36, i10-index: 80)

Journal articles (archival, peer reviewed):

Edited books:

Book chapters (archival, peer reviewed):

Conference papers (archival, peer reviewed, oral presentation):

Conference poster papers (archival, peer reviewed):

Workshop papers (non-archival, peer reviewed):

Other papers (not peer reviewed):

Education

Information and Computer Sciences (PhD)

September 2010 – July 2015

Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine

Advisor: Alfred Kobsa — Dissertation: “A user-tailored approach to privacy decision support”

Human-Technology Interaction (MSc)

September 2007 – June 2009 (graduated with top honors)

Faculty of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands

Advisor: Martijn C. Willemsen — Thesis: “Adaptive Advice”

Human-Computer Interaction (MHI)

September 2006 – 2007 (graduated with a GPA of 3.96)

School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Final project: “Fiesta: A Social Event Planning System for Google”

Innovation Sciences (BSc)

September 2002 – 2005 (graduated with top honors)

Faculty of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands

Final project: “Cognitive Modeling Tools for User Interface Design”

Past work experience

Teaching associate at UC Irvine

January 2014 – March 2014

Job description: Developed a new syllabus and project assignments for the Information and Computer Sciences course “ICS4: Human Factors for the Web”. The course featured a main project that introduced students to human-computer interaction, market research methods, user-centered product design, and prototyping. In 10 weeks, students were challenged to design an interface that enables users perform an existing task (e.g. signing up for classes) in a radically new way.

Internship project for Samsung Information Systems America

June 2012 – December 2012, June 2013 – September 2013, September 2014 – December 2014

Job description: Development and execution of several research projects on adaptive privacy decision support. Samsung has filed two patents based on the work performed during the internship. Additional patent applications are in progress. The original three-month summer internship was so succesful that it was extended for another three months during the academic year, and renewed during the next summer. In 2014, I co-advised Samsung interns as a remote consultant.

Several teaching assistantships at UC Irvine

September 2011 – June 2012

Courses: User Interaction Software for Don Patterson (grading assignments, leading practicums, teaching several lectures), Human-Computer Interaction for Alfred Kobsa (grading assignments and final), Senior Design Project for Hadar Ziv and Judith Olson (grading assignments, project coaching, teaching several lectures).

Internship project for Ericsson

June 2011 – September 2011

Job description: Development and execution of a research project investigating different justification messages for empowering users to make better decisions about disclosing privacy-sensitive information in the context of a mobile app recommender system. Conducting an online experiment with a simple prototype of the system and semi-structured interviews with a paper-based prototype.

Researcher and Teacher at TU/e

June 2009 – September 2010

Job description: Field trial coordinator for the MyMedia FP7 project on multimedia recommender systems. Co-teacher of the “Thinking and Deciding” Bachelor-level course. Coach of two “Design Track A” student projects.

Interaction Designer at Aduna/Vound

December 2007 – June 2009 (2 days/week)

Job description: Incrementally designing new interaction techniques for AutoFocus, Aduna Enterprise Search and Intella (an innovative tool for digital forensics), using short prototype design cycles alternated with user feedback from concept validation and think aloud tests. Interaction design consultancy projects for Aduna customers. Designing website and promotional materials.

Education Officer of Study Association “Intermate”

May 2005 – May 2006 (full-time)

Job description: Intermate is the Study Association of the BSc study “Innovation Sciences” and the MSc studies “Human Technology Interaction” and “Technology and Policy”. The Education Officer is responsible for the student input in the Faculty’s policy and everyday affairs.

Several teaching and research assistantships at TU/e

Totaling over 600 hours from September 2003 to June 2006

Courses: Pre-Master Research Methods (teaching SPSS), Social Psychology (research assistant), Cognition (developing new course material, yearly guest lecture about cognition and technology), Social Science Applications of Simulation Studies (creating simulations of social phenomena), Research Methods: Measurement (weekly instructions), Fundamentals of Physics (class demonstrations and intermediary tests).

Awards and other activities

Awards

Invited/Special talks

Conference/Workshop organization

Program committee and review board memberships

Reviewer positions

Teaching

University service

Current Students

Lijie Guo, PhD student

Recommender systems for self-actualization, Emotions for Recommender Systems, Transparency and control of Facebook Ads

Sushmita Khan, PhD student

Cybersecurity education, recommender systems for self-actualization

Mehtab (Shahan) Iqbal, PhD student

Cybersecurity education, recommender systems for self-actualization

Ananya Gupta, PhD student

Ricoh PhD fellowship awardee

Multilingual social network users, Privacy in the Caribbean

Heba Aly, PhD student

Reducing prejudice through exposure to motivational videos, Multilingual social network users, Older adult privacy education

Co-advisees (committee memberships)

At Clemson: Cheng Guo, Beau Schelble, Arwa Alsubhi, Vincent Leon Guerrero (Policy Studies)

Outside Clemson: Taha Hassan (Virginia Tech)

Graduated students

Jacob Webb, BS 2023 (honors thesis)

AI-powered music education

Reza Ghaiumy Anaraky, PhD 2022

Facebook PhD fellowship awardee

Privacy for intelligent training systems, User-tailored privacy for social networks, Reducing prejudice through diversity in videogames, Age and privacy, Endowment effect, Online political discourse

Daricia Wilkinson, PhD 2022

Facebook PhD fellowship awardee, Google Women Techmakers scholarship Awardee

Recommender systems for self-actualization, Privacy for intelligent training systems, Privacy-centric screensavers, Privacy in the Caribbean, Transparency and control of Facebook Ads

Moses Namara, PhD 2022

Clemson University 2022 Outstanding Graduate Student Researcher

One of the 2021 MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35

Facebook PhD fellowship awardee, Facebook emerging scholars fellowship awardee

Privacy for intelligent training systems, User-tailored privacy for social networks, Social media non-use, VPN adoption for privacy, Transparency and control of Facebook Ads

Paritosh Bahirat, PhD 2021

Privacy profiles for household IoT systems, Generational differences in IoT adoption, User-tailored privacy for social networks

Marie Jarrell, PhD 2020

Reducing prejudice through diversity in videogames, Online political discourse

Yang He, PhD 2019

Privacy profiles for household IoT systems, Privacy for intelligent training systems

Karishma Patil, MS 2022 (Industrial Engineering, thesis)

Transparency and control of Facebook Ads, Privacy-centric screensavers

David Cherry, MS 2019 (non-thesis)

Privacy for intelligent training systems, Comics as a medium for privacy notices, Moiré patterns for privacy

Saadhika (Sonu) Sivakumar, MS 2017 (non-thesis)

Recommender systems for self-actualization, Privacy for intelligent training systems

Abhilash Menon, MS 2017 (non-thesis)

Privacy profiles for household IoT systems, Privacy for intelligent training systems

Pratitee Sinha, MS 2018 (non-thesis)

Recommender systems for self-actualization, Online versus in-store shopping for clothes

Ryan Preston, BS 2021 (honors thesis)

Moiré patterns for privacy

Co-advisees

At Clemson: Melva James, PhD 2015; Kevin Storer, MS Computer Science 2017; Tania Roy, PhD 2018; Yifang Li, PhD 2020; Matias Volonte, PhD 2021; Anurata Hridi, MS Computer Science 2021; Byron Lowens, PhD 2021; Geoff Musick, PhD 2022; Rui Zhang, PhD 2023; Lingyuan Li, PhD 2023; Funmilayo Ogunsanwo, MA Communication 2023.

Outside Clemson: Ron Hirschprung (PhD 2016, Tel-Aviv University), Abdulhadi Alqarni (PhD 2018, Dalhousie University), Sonia Parani (MS 2018, Fribourg University), Aigul Kaskina (PhD 2018, Fribourg University), Odnan Ref Sanchez (PhD 2019, University of Genova), Yao Li (PhD 2019, UC Irvine), Tatenda Duncan Kavu (PhD 2021, University of Zimbabwe), Wanling Cai (PhD 2022, Hong Kong Baptist University)