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Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Researcher of the Month

October 2020 (16.11.2020)

Förderjahr 2019 / Science Call #3 / ProjektID: / Projekt: PENNI: Richtlinienbasiertes Internet der nächsten Generation

How the Next Generation Internet will help you stay in control of your data.

Last month I had the privilege of being nominated as the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien October Researcher of the Month. A big thank you to the WU TV team and the marketing department for producing this wonder showcase of my research.

The official press release can be found here.

Sabrina Kirrane

Sabrina Kirrane is an assistant professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Institute for Information Systems and New Media. Her research interests include Security, Privacy, and Policy aspects of the Next Generation Internet (NGI), Distributed and Decentralised Systems, Big Data and Data Science, with a particular focus on policy representation and reasoning (e.g., access constraints, usage policies, regulatory obligations, societal norms, business processes), and the development of transparency and trust techniques.

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