CV

Contact Information

Name Zane Xu
Professional Title PhD Student in Informatics
Email zx4@njit.edu

Professional Summary

Second-year PhD student at NJIT, working in the SPUR Lab under Dr. Nathan Malkin. Research focuses on usable security and privacy — currently studying people’s privacy perspectives on always-recording technologies and the impact of Large Language Models on crowdsourcing research.

Education

  • 2024 - present

    Newark, NJ, US

    PhD
    New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Informatics
    • Advised by Dr. Nathan Malkin in the SPUR Lab
    • {“Research focus”=>”usable security and privacy”}
  • 2019 - 2023

    Xi'an, China

    B.Eng.
    Xidian University
    Telecommunications Engineering
    • Undergraduate thesis awarded “Excellent” (top 10% of graduates)

Awards

  • 2021
    Academic Progress Award Scholarship
    Xidian University

Interests

Research Interests: Usable security and privacy, privacy perspectives on always-recording technologies, LLMs in crowdsourcing research