August 24, 2006

Antón Named Senior Research Ethics Fellow

Dr. Anton (Photo: Roger Winstead)

As part of the Research and Professional Ethics Program at NC State University, Dr. Annie I. Antón, associate professor of computer science, has been named a Senior Research Ethics Fellow for 2006-08.

Antón is known as a leading authority on Internet technology and privacy issues. She is founder and director of ThePrivacyPlace.org, a research group of students and faculty at NC State and Georgia Tech, and co-founder and co-director of the NC State Electronic Commerce Studio. She has received many awards for her work, including a National Science Foundation Career Award, a Women of Influence Award from CSO magazine, a Computing Research Association Digital Government Fellow and DARPA Defense Science Study Group selection. She received her Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia Tech in 1997 and joined the NC State faculty in 1998, becoming the first Latin-American woman faculty member in the College of Engineering.

Recently, one of Antón’s students, Computer Science doctoral candidate Travis Breaux, received the Walter H. Wilkinson Research Ethics Fellowship for a project he and Antón are working on, entitled “Ethical and Legal Constraints on the Use of DNA and Medical Information in Research.”

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