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Adrienne Porter Felt

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Adrienne Porter Felt
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
OccupationComputer scientist

Adrienne Porter Felt is an American computer scientist.

Education

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Porter Felt completed her PhD at UC Berkeley in 2012. Her dissertation research focused on computer security on mobile devices.[1] Her advisor was David Wagner. Her 2011 paper on Android permissions security won the ACM SIGSAC test-of-time award in 2022.[2]

Career

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After graduation, Porter Felt joined Google. Her work there focuses on computer security and Google Chrome. In 2014, she developed malware warnings in Chrome that are more intuitive for users.[3] In 2016, she noted that the Google Chrome HTTPS lock icon looks more like a red purse than a lock. She conducted a study to design a more intuitive icon, and the new icon was deployed to users.[4] In 2018, she worked on improvements to emoji in Google Chrome.[5]

Personal life

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Porter Felt's father, Edward Porter Felt was killed in the September 11 attacks.[6][7]

References

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  1. ^ "Towards Comprehensible and Effective Permission Systems | EECS at UC Berkeley". www2.eecs.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
  2. ^ "ACM CCS 2022". www.sigsac.org. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
  3. ^ "Google Set to Change Malware, Phishing Warnings Following Study". threatpost.com. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
  4. ^ Greenberg, Andy. "Google's Chrome Hackers Are About to Upend Your Idea of Web Security". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
  5. ^ Aue, Mary von. "Google Enables Quick Emoji Use in Chrome — Here's How". Inverse. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
  6. ^ "Edward Porter Felt - Flight 93 National Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
  7. ^ "__apf__". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
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