Summary
Tanusree Sharma is an Assistant Professor and researcher at the intersection of Security/Privacy, AI, and HCI with eight years of experience translating applied research into usable systems and governance mechanisms. Her work spans secure systems for personhood verification and data provenance in AI/ML pipelines, usable privacy for Web3/DeFi, and human-in-the-loop governance for large language models, informed by funded projects with OpenAI, NSF, Meta, and Google. She completed a PhD in Information Sciences at UIUC and has a track record of building practical tools for underserved communities—such as privacy tools for the Global South and accessibility-focused computer vision for blind users. A former Google privacy engineer intern and Max Planck visiting researcher, she blends rigorous technical design with human-centered evaluation to embed public values into socio-technical systems. Notably, her research emphasizes contextually situated solutions that balance trust, authenticity, and usability across organizational and social settings.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor of Science - B.Sc, Computer and Information Technology, 3.85/4.00, Bachelor of Science - B.Sc, Computer and Information Technology, 3.85/4.00 at Jahangirnagar University