Tyler Calabrese

I am a first-year PhD student in Boston University's Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, working with Dr. Allison McDonald. My research interests are in digital privacy and safety for marginalized, criminalized, and otherwise at-risk groups.

You can get in touch with me at tylerjc [at] bu.edu.

My pronouns are he/him.

Latest

May 1, 2026: Last week the CDS PhD students had our lightning research talk competition, thanks to student seminar organizers Freddy Rieber, Lingyi Xu, and Stella Si. We each had one slide for a two-minute talk and one-minute Q&A. My talk was titled "Call off your Techno Boy-Toy": Cybersecurity and privacy in the Pretty Little Liars novels vs. show.

The prizes for the competition were awarded today, and I won in two out of three categories! "Most entertaining speaker" and "out there and avant-garde." If you want to check out my slide from the talk, it's available here.