lana ramjit

I’m a privacy and security expert working at the intersections of digital safety, technology policy, and data-driven research. Currently, I lead development of the National Resource Center for Cybercrimes against individuals at AEquitas, in partnership with the Department of Justice, which seeks to improve community responses and justice system experiences for survivors of cyberstalking and image-based sexual abuse. I am also a Lecturer-affiliate with UC Berkeley, where I facilitate the graduate section of their Public Interest Cybersecurity Clinic, providing non-profits and civil society organizations with pro bono cybersecurity services.

From 2022-2024, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell Tech where I served as the Director of the Clinic to End Tech Abuse (CETA) which provides free security and privacy consultations to survivors of intimate partner violence experiencing technology-facilitated abuse in New York City. I oversaw hundreds of consultations, specializing in complex, high-risk cases that required combined efforts from criminal, civil, and advocacy professionals.

In addition to being a mixed-methods researcher, I seek to connect academic rigor with impactful policy. I was a 2021 Computing Innovations Postdoctoral Fellow, part of the inaugural class of 2023 Public Interest Technology Policy Fellows at the Aspen Institute and a 2024 Aspen Ideas Fellow. I earned my PhD in Computer Science at UCLA in 2021 and before that my BA in Computer Science at Columbia University.

My last name is pronounced phonetically (ram like the animal, jit as in jitter), with no specific emphasis on either syllable, as it usually is within the Indo-Caribbean diaspora (🇹🇹).

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advocacy

I believe that the best policy emerges at the intersection of research, lived experience, and strategic advocacy. Many of my policy initiatives have been enshrined in federal or state law or adopted by tech-platforms. I’ve been consulted for my expertise by Forbes, NPR, Al Jazeera, the NYTimes, the White House Task Force for Online Abuse (final), the IETF Humans Rights group, and the UN Population Fund (report). I’ve also been profiled by the IAPP, Forensic Focus, and wrote an opinion piece for PIT-UN advocating for a shift in how we think about cybersecurity.

I regularly work with community organizations, civil society organizations, high-risk individuals, and government agencies to provide privacy and security audits, deliver trainings or participate in workshops, including NYC Health + Hospitals, the American Bar Association, and the CRA/CCC Symposium on At-Risk Users. Additionally, I perform (confidential) privacy audits and safety analyses of products for tech platforms, including Google, Apple, and Meta.

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writing

highlights from projects and papers I’ve worked on:

Trauma-Informed Organizational Coordination in Clinical Computer Security.
Lana Ramjit, Nicola Dell, Dana Cuomo. ACM CSCW 2025. pdf
^{Received an Impact Recognition designation.}

Digital Technologies and Human Trafficking: Combating Coercive Control and Navigating Digital Autonomy.  Sophie Stephenson, Lana Ramjit, Thomas Ristenpart, Nicki Dell. SIGCHI 2025. pdf

Physical Visualization Design: Decoupling Interface and System Design
Yiru Chen, Xupeng Li, Jeff Tao, Lana Ramjit, Ravi Netravali, Subrata Mitra, Aditya Parameswaran, Javad Ghaderi, Dan Rubenstein, Eugene Wu. SIGMOD 2025. pdf

Navigating Traumatic Stress Reactions in Computer Security.
Lana Ramjit, Natalie Dolci, Francesca Rossi, Ryan Garcia, Thomas Ristenpart, Dana Cuomo. USENIX Security 2024. pdf 

Data Stewardship in Clinical Computer Security
Emily Tseng, Rosanna Bellini, Yeuk Yu Lee, Lana Ramjit, Thomas Ristenpart, and Nicola Dell. ACM CSCW 2024. pdf

How to Start a Technology Abuse Clinic.
Lana Ramjit, Dana Cuomo, Nicola Dell, and Thomas Ristenpart.
European Conference on Domestic Violence, 2023. pdf | site

Who—not what—is cybersecurity for? PIT-UN. Invited Op-Ed, May 2023.

Technology Abuse Clinics for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence.
Lana Ramjit, Dana Cuomo, Nicola Dell, Thomas Ristenpart. USENIX Enigma 2023. (video)

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