Caring for intimate data in fertility technologies – Dr Maryam Mehrnezhad, Research Fellow, Newcastle University, UK
This talk will cover:
• Fertility tracking technologies.
• Risk.
• Differential vulnerabilities.
• Security and privacy evaluation of apps.
Dr Maryam Mehrnezhad, is a Research Fellow in the School of Computing, Newcastle University. With a cybersecurity background, she has developed an international track record in interdisciplinary applied research fields, resulting in several high-impact papers with global media impact (BBC, Guardian, Science Friday) and companies such as Apple and Firefox, releasing patches. Her current research focuses on cybersecurity and privacy for marginalised user groups, and she is the PI on Security & Privacy of Fertility Technologies (CyFer), a UKRI PETRAS project.
Dr Mehrnezhad has a special interest in standardisation research; serving as a W3C (the main international standardisation body for web) invited expert. She has won several national and international prizes including the Economist and Kaspersky Cybersecurity Award for using Blockchain for end-to-end verifiable e-voting and the Best PhD Research Award at ACE-CSR for her research on sensor security. She is an advocate for EDI and supports Women in STEM via her research, mentoring, and outreach programs e.g. hosting the Women in Maths Day’18 (funded by London Math Society).