Education

• Computer Science M.S., The University of Chicago Computer Science Department [June 2023]
• Master of Legal Studies, The University of Chicago Law School [June 2024]
  • One year in law school taking 1L and upper level classes as it relates to my research.
  • Emphasis on copyright, administrative, and privacy law.
• Computer Science Ph.D., The University of Chicago Computer Science Department [Expected 2027]

Research

Publications

• J. Chanenson, M. Pickering, and N. Apthorpe, “Automating Governing Knowledge Commons and Contextual Integrity (GKC-CI) Privacy Policy Annotations with Large Language Models,” Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2025, Available: https://doi.org/10.56553/popets-2025-0062.
• J. Chanenson, B. Sloane, A. Morrill, J. Chee, N. Rajan, D. Huang, and M. Chetty, “Uncovering Privacy and Security Challenges In K-12 Schools.” In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 592, 1–28. Available: https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580777. Honorable Mention.
• J. Chanenson, P. Ghate, P. Cowal, M. Weaver and D. M. Krum, “Advancing Ethical Decision Making in Virtual Reality,” 2019 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), Osaka, Japan, 2019, pp. 1008-1009. Available: https://doi.org/10.1109/VR.2019.8798151.

Talks

• G. J. Chanenson, M. Pickering, N. Apthorpe, 5th Annual Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity, Topic: Annotating GKC-CI Flows With Large Language Models, Toronto, ON, Fall 2023.
• M. Choksi and G. J. Chanenson, 5th Annual Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity, Topic: Contextual Integrity for Accountable Scholarship, Toronto, ON, Fall 2023.
• G. J. Chanenson, B. Sloane, A. Morrill, N. Rajan, J. Chee, D. Huang, M. Chetty, 4th Annual Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity, Topic: Privacy, CI, and EdTech In K-12, New York, NY, Fall 2022.
• G. J. Chanenson, A. Morrill, M. Chetty, 4th Annual Transcending Boundaries Symposium, Topic: All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Investigating Educational Technology Use and Privacy Implications In K-12, Chicago, IL, Spring 2022.
• G. J. Chanenson, K. Webb, Swarthmore College, Topic: Understanding Student Resiliency To Technical Challenges Inside and Outside The Classroom, Swarthmore, PA, Spring 2021.
• G. J. Chanenson, S. Rismani, A. Moon, Swarthmore Summer Showcase, Topic: An Investigation of Ethical Risk, Swarthmore, PA, Summer 2020.

Policy

• G. J. Chanenson, M. Chetty, C. Crum, N. Feamster, J. Holiman, A. Khanna, K. MacMillan, B. Pandey, A. Peterson, Z. Rothstein, L. Strahilevitz, J. Yasmeh, (May 2022) Comment on Dark Patterns in Social Media for European Data Protection Board.

• G.J. Chanenson, MZ Choksi, M. Chetty, (February 2024) Comment on the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (“COPPA”) for Federal Trade Commission Docket FTC-2021-0019.

Teaching

• Computer Science Instructor, University of Chicago’s Office of Special Programs-College Prep [Winter 2022 - Spring 2022]
  • Designed and taught a coding class in Python to 15 under-served high school students
• Summer Course Instructor, University of Chicago College Readiness and Access Program [Summer 2022, Summer 2023]
  • Designed and taught a human-centered design summer course to 20 under-served high school students.

Service

• CHI 2025 Paper Chair Assistant [Winter 2024 - Spring 2025]
• I served on the UChicago CS’s Graduate Student Ministry – the CS graduate student governing body – as one of the ministers responsible for inclusion (DEI Minister). [Fall 2021-Spring 2023]
• I served on the UChicago CS Department’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Committee. [Fall 2021-Spring 2023]
• Paper reviewer
  • alt.chi 2022
  • DIS 2022
  • CSCW 2022, 2023
  • CHI 2023, 2024

Presentations and Other Media

• My write up of the third annual Applications of Contextual Integrity Symposium which I wrote for the Technology, Academics, Policy (TAP) Blog.

Awards

• Masters In Legal Studies Scholarship [2023]
  • Full ride to spend one year a The University of Chicago Law School studying law
  • The University of Chicago Law School
• Best Paper Honorable Mention [2023]
  • ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing System
• Special Recognition for Outstanding Review [2022]
  • ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
• Crerar Fellowship [2021]
  • Merit-based research stipend
  • University of Chicago Computer Science Department
• Lockwood Fellowship [2021]
  • Merit-based research stipend
  • Swarthmore College
• Social Impact Summer Scholarship [2020]
  • Lang Center for Civic & Social Responsibility
• Civic Digital Fellowship (Declined) [2020]
  • Coding it Forward Foundation
• Best Poster Honorable Mention at IEEE Virtual Reality 2019 [2019]
  • IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces