Sepideh Ghanavati is an associate professor in Computer Science at the University of Maine and the director of the Privacy Engineering - Regulatory Compliance Lab. Her research interests are at the intersections of human-centered privacy and security, software engineering, and natural language processing. Previously, she worked as a (visiting) assistant professor at Texas Tech, Radboud University, and Carnegie Mellon University. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER and Google Faculty Research Awards. She has about 15 years of academic and industry experience in privacy and regulatory compliance and is a co-founder of the PrivateNLP workshop series.