+RESEARCH


I'm a first year PhD student in Human Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington, where I am affiliated with Inquilab.
I'm mentored by Dr. Sucheta Ghoshal and Dr. Emily Tseng.


My research focuses on:


PUBLICATIONS

Conference Proceedings and Journal Articles (Peer Reviewed)

Barakat, H., and Redmiles, E. M. 2022. Community Under Surveillance: Impacts of Marginalization on an Online Labor Forum. Proc. of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 16, 1 (May 2022), 12–21.

Bhalerao, R., McDonald, N., Barakat, H., Hamilton, V., McCoy, D., and Redmiles, E. 2022. Ethics and Efficacy of Unsolicited Anti-Trafficking SMS Outreach. Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 6, CSCW2 (Nov. 2022), Article 409.

Hamilton, V., Barakat, H., and Redmiles, E. M. 2022. Risk, Resilience and Reward: Impacts of Shifting to Digital Sex Work. Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 6, CSCW2 (Nov. 2022), Article 410.

Butler, K., Hugenberg, K., Jain E., Kapadia, A., Kohno, T., Redmiles, E., Roesner, F., Sim, M., Traynor, P., Barakat, H. Extending the Heilmeier Catechism to Evaluate Security and Privacy Systems: Who is Left Out?  in IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 91-95.

Amrute, S., Caplan, R., Dissmore, S., Garofalo, L., Mukogosi, J., Roxanne, T., Woluchem, M., Agrawal, G., Barakat, H., boyd, d., Aviña Cerecer, G., Demanuele, A., Furtado, C., Lampinen, A., Martin, Z., Minhas, P., Abdul Rahman, E., Ramirez, A., Rosner, D., Sengupta, A., Singh, A., Vasconcelos, E. L., & Washington, A. (2025). Trust Issues: An Anthology. Data & Society.

Applied Research Papers and Reports (Non-Peer Reviewed Publications)

AWARDS

College of Engineering Dean's Fellowship, University of Washington, 2025- 2026

Outstanding Thesis Award, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, 2022 

Journal of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Diversity & Inclusion Recognition Award, 2022

XXXII Olympiad, Tokyo, Japan, Summer 2021

Ivy League Athletic Scholar, 2019 - 2020

JP Blacksmith Memorial Award for Leadership, Scholarship, Athletic Commitment, and Public Service, 2017 Flintridge Preparatory School


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