Hilda Hadan
PhD Student
Hilda is a first-year Ph.D. student in Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, under the co-supervision of Dr. Lennart E. Nacke and Dr. Leah Zhang-Kennedy. Hilda is passionate about human-centred research, particularly in video games, usable privacy and security. She holds a BS in Automation Engineering from South-Central University of Nationalities in China, a course-based MS in Information Systems Management from George Washington University, and a thesis-based MS in Security Informatics from Indiana University, United States. Before joining the University of Waterloo, Hilda was a Graduate Researcher at IoT Research Lab at Indiana University, where she worked with Dr. Jean Camp and published research studies on Public Key Infrastructure security, and privacy perceptions on IoT and during COVID.