Adrienne Porter Felt Explained

Adrienne Porter Felt
Occupation:	Computer scientist
Alma Mater:	University of California, Berkeley

Adrienne Porter Felt is an American computer scientist.

Education

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

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

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

References

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