Julia Bernd

Julia Bernd received her MA in Linguistics from Stanford University in 2002, and has since then applied her academic training to practical causes by working on a wide variety of social-science and public-health research projects around the Bay Area. At ICSI and UC Berkeley, she has been involved in program evaluations; curriculum projects in privacy, security, and the social impacts of computing; and open-access corpus development. Research interests include user expectations about smart homes, privacy culture in software development, and the intersections of privacy and social power dynamics.