[change] Fwd: Re Postdoc/Research Associate Opportunity at the CTIC at Penn

[Kurtis Heimerl]

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From: Muge Haseki 
Date: Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 1:03 PM

Subject: Postdoc/Research Associate Opportunity at the Center for
Technology, Innovation, and Competition at Penn



The Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition at the University of
Pennsylvania seeks a research fellow to work on a set of research projects
focusing on access to information and communication technologies and their
impact on economic development outcomes. The work will involve analyzing
quantitative data from a variety of datasets, including local
administrative data, survey data, experimental data, and financial data. We
are currently soliciting applications for postdocs, data scientists, and
research associates, with appointment to begin immediately. This position
is for 1 year, subject to renewal for an additional year.

Qualified candidates should have a graduate degree in Computer Science,
Economics, Information Science, or a related field. Strong technical,
analytic, and computational skills are essential. Familiarity with
financial modeling and prior experience conducting field experiments are
preferred.



Some of the responsibilities include:

·  Conduct fieldwork when necessary

·  Clean and manage large datasets

·  Conduct statistical analyses of data using R/Stata

·  Prepare literature reviews, background research, and other draft content
for grant proposals and academic papers

·  Draft project reports, research protocols, and other project documents

·  Prepare presentations for large venues – e.g., U.N. bodies

·  Manage teams of research assistants

·  Represent the project on conference calls and email discussions with
various communities of interest

·  Maintain the project website

Interested individuals should send the following materials to Muge Haseki (
mhas...@law.upenn.edu) with a subject line “Postdoc/RA Position”: a CV, a
cover letter describing research interests and prior relevant experience,
two writing samples (or a relevant chapter from their dissertations), and a
list of names and contact information of three references. Review of
applications will begin immediately.








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Re: [change] Privacy Policy Talk at UW CSE, Wed 9/4 at 3:30pm- "Seattle Surveillance Ordinance: Information for Tech Activists"

[Esther Jang]

Reminder: talk starting in 10 minutes!
-Esther

On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 2:40 PM Esther Jang 
wrote:

> Reminder: this is tomorrow!
> -Esther
>
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 2:01 PM Esther Jang 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Change community,
>>
>> Next *Wed 9/4 3:30pm at UW CSE*, students from the ICTD and Security &
>> Privacy Labs will jointly be hosting a talk by local privacy activist
>> Cynthia Spiess. She'll be talking about how to get involved in the City of
>> Seattle's process for publicly reviewing surveillance technologies used by
>> the city, the Seattle Surveillance Ordinance.
>>
>> *Talk Title: "Seattle Surveillance Ordinance: Information for Tech
>> Activists"*
>> *When: Wednesday 9/4, 3:30-5 pm*
>> *Where: Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering, Gates
>> Commons (rm CSE 691)*
>>
>>
>> *Speaker Bio:*Cynthia Spiess has previously worked at Adobe as a Senior
>> Security Researcher for the Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET).
>> Prior to that, she worked at Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Security
>> Engineer for the AWS AppSec team; and earlier as a Developer Support
>> Engineer for AWS Premium Support. She has spoken at DefendCon 2017 and iSec
>> (now NCC) Open Forum Seattle. Her work experience covers front-end and
>> back-end web stacks (GUIs and APIs), both traditional and more modern
>> (NoSQL DBs, docker/Mesos), SecOps/IR, and (unsurprisingly) cloud security.
>>
>>
>> *Talk Summary:*The City of Seattle is in the midst of undertaking
>> important steps that impact the privacy (and security in some cases) of all
>> persons living, working, and traveling in Seattle for likely many years to
>> come. This work is partially underway, with different surveillance
>> technologies in different stages of the process. This presentation will
>> cover what the Seattle Surveillance Ordinance is & the overall process
>> end-to-end; what stage we’re at; noteworthy technical findings thus far;
>> what’s next; and how to contribute your knowledge. The overall situation is
>> one which is near starving for technical contributions and voice, so the
>> hope is that this presentation is more than purely informational and
>> instead results in informed participation (in any level or capacity).
>>
>> Here's a FB event  for
>> sharing. Please come if you can make it, and invite anyone who you think
>> would be interested!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Esther
>>
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