About me
Norman Sadeh is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where he co-founded and co-directs Privacy Engineering Program. Norman served as lead principal investigator on two of the largest domestic research projects in privacy, the Usable Privacy Policy Project and the Personalized Privacy Assistant Project. He was also founding CEO and, until its acquisition by Proofpoint, chairman and chief scientist of Wombat Security Technologies, a company that defined the multi-billion dollar user-oriented cybersecurity market. Technologies Norman developed with colleagues at CMU and Wombat are used to protect tens of millions of users around the world against cybersecurity attacks such as phishing. Earlier in his career, he also served at the European Commission as Chief Scientist of the 550M Euro eWork and eCommerce initiative, which included all pan-European research in cybersecurity and privacy and related policy activities.