I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). I obtained my BS in Computer Science and Engineering from Santa Clara University (SCU) and my MS in Computer Science from UCI.
I am advised by Athina Markopoulou and Scott Jordan, and I am a member of the NSF SaTC Frontier ProperData Center. My research interests include usable privacy, children's and teens' online privacy and safety, system auditing and compliance, privacy legislation and regulation, and human-computer interaction (HCI). I also served as President of the Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) student chapter at UCI from 2023 to 2025. For more information, see my CV.
UCI ICS Steckler Family Endowed Fellowship Recipient
July 2025
I was selected to receive the ICS Steckler Family Endowed Fellowship for 2025-2026! The focus of this fellowship is to support PhD students in UCI ICS whose research, teaching, and/or outreach and professional service activities reflect their commitment to promote computing to women.
Presented at Comcast Security and Privacy Research Group
June 2025
I was invited to present a talk about my children's privacy research to the Comcast Security and Privacy Research group. Thank you for inviting me to speak to this group!
DTEI Graduate Scholar Fellowship
May 2025
I was selected for the Division of Teaching Excellence & Innovation's (DTEI) Summer Graduate Scholars Fellowship Program, which focuses on campus-wide pedagogical change by both developing and improving existing courses through inclusive and equitable curriculum design. Thank you DTEI!
When Kids Mode Isn't For Kids: Investigating TikTok's "Under 13 Experience"
Olivia Figueira, Pranathi Chamarthi, Tu Le, and Athina Markopoulou
Under Submission
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DiffAudit: Auditing Privacy Practices of Online Services for Children and Adolescents
Olivia Figueira, Rahmadi Trimananda, Athina Markopoulou, and Scott Jordan
In Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2024
Best Student Paper Award at IMC 2024
Presented at PrivaCI Symposium 2024
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DeepPhish: Understanding User Trust Towards Artificially Generated Profiles in Online Social Networks
Jaron Mink, Licheng Luo, Natã M. Barbosa, Olivia Figueira, Yang Wang, and Gang Wang
In Proceedings of the 31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2022)
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Understanding COVID-19 Public Sentiment Towards Public Health Policies Using Social Media Data
Olivia Figueira, Yuka Hatori, Liying Liang, Christine Chye, and Yuhong Liu
In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) 2021
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Distress Among Undergraduates: Marginality, Stressors and Resilience Resources
Paula S. Nurius, Yasaman S. Sefidgar, Kevin S. Kuehn, Jake Jung, Han Zhang, Olivia Figueira, Eve A. Riskin, Anind K. Dey, and Jennifer C. Mankoff
In Journal of American College Health 2021
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The Hypocrisy of Data Governance
Zubair Shafiq, Athina Markopoulou, Olivia Figueira, Woodrow Hartzog, and Michael Lavine
Presented at the Symposium on "Governing Data", Yale Law School, March 2024
Journal paper to appear in the Yale Journal of Law and Technology (YJoLT), 2025
Symposium
Privacy of Virtual Reality: Our Future in the Metaverse and Beyond
Authors: Girard Kelly, Jeff Graham, Jill Bronfman, and Steve Garton
Contributors: Olivia Figueira and Aya Nouiouat
Common Sense Media, Privacy Program, 2022
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