Selected Awards
- NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation (NSF), 2010-2015
- PNC Technologies Career Development Professorship, 2010 - 2013
- Best Paper Proceedings (top 10% papers), Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 2009
- Best Paper Award, iConference, Chapel Hill, NC, 2009
- ACM SIGMIS Best Doctoral Dissertation Award (Runner-Up), 2006
- Singapore Infocomm Development Authority Gold Medal and Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation, 2006
- Singapore Millennium Foundation Postdoctoral Award and Fellowship, 2005 - 2006
- IBM Ph.D. Fellowship, 2004
- Best Theme Paper (Runner-Up), International Conferences on Information Systems (ICIS), Seattle, WA, 2003
Research Interests
- Information Privacy and Trust Management
- Privacy Assurance Mechanisms
- Strategic Management of Organizational Privacy Practices
- Cross-National/ Cultural Dynamics of Privacy Management
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Design and Usability Studies of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
- User-Oriented Design for Wireless Applications
- Technology Diffusion and Adoption
- Location-Based Services, and RFID
- Web 2.0, Social Networks, and Virtual Worlds
Research Grants
- Xu, H. (PI), "CAREER: Examining Users' Collective Privacy Management for Online Social Networks," NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation ($478,606), 2010-2015.
- Xu, H. (PI), Carroll, J. M. (Co-PI), Rosson, M. B. (Co-PI), and Perkins, D. (Co-PI) "MySpace Generation's Online Safety: Adolescent Attitude and Behavior, Parental Mediation, and Educational Intervention," National Science Foundation ($499,945), 2010-2013.
- Reddy, M. (PI), and Xu, H. (Co-PI), "Collaborative Privacy Practices: Exploring Privacy in Information Intensive Environments," National Science Foundation ($499,981), 2010-2013.
- Xu, H. (PI), Bagby, W. J. (Co-PI), and Maitland, C. (Co-PI) "Seed Grant: Regulating Privacy in Wireless Advertising Messaging (WAM): FIPP Compliance by Policy vs. by Design," College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University ($5,725), 2010-2011.
- Squicciarini, A. (PI), and Xu, H. (Co-PI) "Seed Grant: User's Controllable Privacy in Social Computing," College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University ($5,725), 2010-2011.
- Xu, H. (PI), Zhu, S. (Co-PI), and Perkins, D. (Co-PI) "Seed Grant: 'MySpace' Generation's Online Safety: Integrating Social, Legal and Technical Perspectives," College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University($8,500), 2009-2010.
- Xu, H. (PI), Zhu, S. (Co-PI), and Perkins, D. (Co-PI) "Protecting Children's Online Privacy: a Value Sensitive Design Investigation," Children, Youth and Family Consortium, Penn State University ($12,094), 2008-2009.
- Chu, C. H. (PI), Liu, P. (Co-PI), and Xu, H. (Co-PI) "IA Scholarship and Capacity Building Program," DoD Information Assurance Scholarship Program ($101,734), 2008-2009.
- Xu, H. (PI), Rosson, M. B. (Co-PI), and Carroll, J. M. (Co-PI) "Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Supplement for the CT-ER Project on Privacy Assurance in Location-Based Services," National Science Foundation ($6,000), 2008-2010.
- Xu, H. (PI), Rosson, M. B. (Co-PI), and Carroll, J. M. (Co-PI) "CT-ER: Privacy Assurance in Location-Based Services: Integrating Economic Exchange and Social Justice Perspectives," National Science Foundation ($168,777), 2007-2010.
- Chu, C. H. (PI), Liu, P. (Co-PI), and Xu, H. (Co-PI) "IA Scholarship and Capacity Building Program (Privacy Assurance Lab)," DoD Information Assurance Scholarship Program ($175,576), 2007-2009.
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