Heng Xu
- PNC Technologies Career Development Professorship
- Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
University Park , PA 16802
Websites
For more information about Xu's research and her publications, see http://faculty.ist.psu.edu/xu/
Education
- Ph.D., National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2001-2005
- B. Mgmt., Shandong University, China, 1997-2001
- Certificate in Fashion Design, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore, 2003-2005
Biography
Dr. Heng Xu joined IST as an assistant professor in August 2006. She is a recipient of the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award (2010 - 2015) and the endowed PNC Technologies Career Development Professorship (2010 - 2013).
She received her Ph.D. in information systems from the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore. Her Ph.D. dissertation, “Privacy Considerations in the Location Based Services,” was a runner up for the 2006 ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition.
Research and Teaching Interests
Xu leads the Privacy Assurance Lab (PAL), an inter-disciplinary research group working on a diverse set of projects related to understanding and assuring information privacy. She has published journal articles and conference papers on information privacy, security management, human-computer interaction, and technology innovation adoption. Currently focused on the interplay between social and technological issues associated with information privacy, Xu approaches privacy issues through a combination of empirical, theoretical and technical research efforts. Her research projects deal with the impact of novel technologies on individuals' privacy perceptions, strategic management of firms’ information privacy practices, and design and empirical evaluations of privacy-enhancing technologies. Xu’s teaching activities cover topics in integration of privacy and security, security and risks analysis, and human information behavior. Her interdisciplinary research and education has been sponsored by National Science Foundation and National Security Agency.
