Heather Richter Lipford is an Associate Professor in the Department of Software and Information Systems at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Lipford's research interests are in Human Computer Interaction, with a focus in usable privacy and security, secure programming, and social computing. She has published dozens of research articles in these areas at premiere HCI and usable security venues. She has also previously done research in the areas of ubiquitous computing and software engineering.
At UNC Charlotte, Lipford co-directs the HCI Lab and is a member of the UNCC Cyber Defense and Network Assurability Center, the Charlotte Visualization Center, and the UNCC Cognitive Science Academy. She regularly teaches and mentors students in the areas of HCI and usable privacy and security. She is also heavily involved in efforts to broaden participation in computing, and increase the recruitment and retention of under-represented groups in computing degree programs.
Lipford received a Bachelor of Science degree from Michigan State University in 1995, and a Ph.D. from the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2005.
