
Arjun Arunasalam
Assistant Professor
aarunasa@fiu.edu
305-348-2744
CASE 212B
By appointment
Biography
Dr. Arjun Arunasalam completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University, where he was advised by Professor Z. Berkay Celik. Prior to joining Purdue, Arjun earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research spans sociotechnical security and privacy as well as human-centered computing. His dissertation leveraged mixed methods to understand end-users’ security, privacy, and trust in diverse sociotechnical systems, ranging from social media and e-commerce platforms to extended reality and human-AI interfaces. His work has been published in top security and HCI venues such as USENIX Security, NDSS, ICWSM, and CSCW. He also interned with the SUPERgroup lab at the University of Chicago under Professor Blase Ur in summer 2024 and was selected as a CS Rising Star by the University of Iowa.