A University of California, Irvine associate dean guides her students in studying the latest issues involving law, privacy, and policy, including in social media, AI, and computer networks. “We look at end-user devices — smartphones, smart speakers, browsers, Internet of Things (IoT) — and explore and try to expose whether tech companies collect the data, and whether they use the data for targeting consumers,” said Athina Markopoulou, Ph.D., associate dean for graduate and professional studies at the University of California, Irvine Samueli School of Engineering. She also serves as faculty mentor for UC Irvine’s new Women in CyberSecurity chapter.  … Educating engineers in a holistic way is key to transforming the profession. Hopeful signs are emerging there, too. Magnus Egerstedt, Ph.D., [Stacey Nicholas] dean of engineering for the Henry Samueli School of Engineering [and professor of electrical engineering & computer science] at the University of California, Irvine, worked to obtain a $50 million gift from Susan Samueli, Ph.D., and Henry Samueli, Ph.D., to create three new multidisciplinary research institutes at the university. Read More