Aleecia M. McDonald is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon's
Information Networking Institute, based in Silicon Valley. Professor
McDonald focuses on the Practicum program, pairing students with
sponsored external projects, plus teaches a variety of other courses at the MS
level. Her <i>Psst!</i> Lab focuses on researching the public policy
issues of Internet privacy, including user expectations, behavioral
economics and mental models of privacy, and the efficacy of industry
self regulation. She co-chaired the WC3’s Tracking Protection Working
Group, an effort to establish international standards for a Do Not
Track mechanism that users can enable to request enhanced privacy online. <p>

Professor McDonald was Director of Privacy at the Stanford Center for
Internet and Society, where she maintains a non-resident Fellow
affiliation. She was also a Senior Privacy Researcher for
Mozilla. A decade of experience working in software startups adds a
practical focus to her academic work. <p> 

Professor McDonald's research findings have been featured in media
outlets such as the Washington Post, Ars Technica, and NPR. She has
presented testimony to the California Assembly, and contributed to
testimony before the United States Senate and the Federal Trade
Commission. She holds a PhD in Engineering & Public Policy from
Carnegie Mellon.