Kelsey Fulton

I’m an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Colorado School of Mines where I run the Security and People at Mines (SPAM) lab. I received my PhD from the University of Maryland, where I was advised by Michelle Mazurek in the Security, Privacy, and People Lab (SP2).

My research exists at the intersection of people and security and privacy. The goal of my research is to improve peoples’ understandings and implementations of security and privacy by empirically evaluating their experiences and knowledge. Recent research has focused on:

• Improving security and privacy education at the K-12 level
• Exploring the impacts of AI on security and privacy in various capacities (K-12 spaces, software development, study design, etc)
• Improving the adoption of secure tools and programming languages (fuzzers, Rust, etc)

As a result of my work, I aim to provide scientifically-based recommendations for the improvement of secure development, security and privacy education, and the security and privacy considerations of emerging AI technologies.

I am fortunate to work with a number of incredible graduate students:

• Jake Hoekstra (CS PhD)
• Jack Kingham (CS PhD)
• Katy Limes (CS PhD)

I do not currenlty have any openings for PhD or MS students. I have a few openings for excited, motivated undergraduate students. Prospective students can look at the prospective students page for details.