My name is Jake. I'm a CS PhD student at The University of Chicago with a masters in law working with Marshini Chetty in the Amyoli Internet Research Lab. Broadly, I'm interested in HCI, privacy, and tech policy.
Feel free to click through my website for more on me and what I do.
- Chatted with some reporters about the Canvas incident https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2026/05/california-went-big-on-canvas-the-worst-happened/
- I gave a talk for Lectures on Tap on why the internet doesn't feel the same anymore by placing our digital decline in a broader historical and legal context,
- My paper Investigating ChatGPT Usage in High Schools: Student Perspectives on Policy and Practice was accepted into FAccT '26!
- I have revamped my website -- check it out here
- I was on the organizing team for the 1st annual Tech for Good Conference where I moderated a panel about tech policy in practice with Erie Meyer and Mihir Kshirsagar
- My paper "It didn’t feel right but I needed a job so desperately": Understanding People’s Emotions and Help Needs During Scams will appeat at CHI '26!
- My workshop Developmentally Safe Generative AI Environments for Youth was accepted into CHI '26. Sign up here to join! (https://www.youthaisafety.com/)
- My paper Automating GKC-CI Privacy Policy Annotations with Large Language Models was published at PETS '25 (https://petsymposium.org/popets/2025/popets-2025-0062.php)
- I gave an invited talk at Sony AI's Weekly AI Ethics Journal Club
- I'm working as student researcher at Google with Sunny Consolvo
- I'm off to Chicago Law for AY 23-24
- I was fortunate enough to have my working paper K12 Data Unions/How Student-Data Trusts Can Help Protect Student Privacy selected for the Privacy Law Scholars Conference 2024!
- My paper Uncovering Privacy and Security Challenges In K-12 Schools was published in CHI '26! (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3580777)
- The paper received an Honorable Mention at CHI 2023
- There was a profile for it: https://www.the74million.org/article/how-ed-tech-tools-track-kids-online-and-why-parents-should-care/
- The paper was covered on a K12 news site: https://www.k12dive.com/news/ed-tech-uses-extensive-tracking/644977/
- The paper was covered on a second K12 news site: https://www.edsurge.com/news/2023-04-17-student-privacy-is-at-more-risk-than-ever-before-can-k-12-schools-keep-it-safe
- The paper was mentioned in https://www.the74million.org/article/its-back-to-school-for-cyber-gangs-too/
- Covered on Fox35: https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/increase-reported-in-hackers-and-scammers-targeting-schools
- Covered on the markup: https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2023/11/22/facebook-watches-teens-online-as-they-prep-for-college
- USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2023/11/22/facebook-meta-tracking-pixels/71665668007/