Elijah Bouma-Sims

Bio

Elijah is a PhD candidate in Societal Computing. He is interested in usable security and privacy, especially for at-risk communities. His current work focuses on examining scam victimization online. He is also interested in designing to support privacy notice and choice.

Education

Elijah completed a B.S. in Computer Engineering and a B.A. in History from North Carolina State University in 2021. He earned an M.S. in Societal Computing in 2023. He has been a teaching assistant for Usable Security and Privacy and Privacy, Policy, Law, and Technology. His teaching philosophy prioritizes active learning in the classroom through research and other authentic tasks.

Publications

E. Bouma-Sims, L. Klucinec, M. Lanyon, L. F. Cranor, and J. Downs, “The kids are all right: Investigating the susceptibility of teens and adults to youtube giveaway scams,” in Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2025. Available: https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2025-342-paper.pdf

E. Bouma-Sims, H. Hassan, A. Nisenoff, L. F. Cranor, and N. Christin, “"It was honestly just gambling": Investigating the experiences of teenage cryptocurrency users on reddit,” in Twentieth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2024). Available: https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2024/presentation/bouma-sims

E. Bouma-Sims, S. Ananda Kumar, and L. Cranor, “Exploring the privacy experiences of closeted users of online dating services in the us,” in Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2024. Available: https://doi.org/10.56553/popets-2024-0046

E. Bouma-Sims, M. Li, Y. Lin, A. Sakura-Lemessy, A. Nisenoff, E. Young, E. Birrell, L. F. Cranor, and H. Habib, “A US-UK usability evaluation of consent management platform cookie consent interface design on desktop and mobile,” in Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Hamburg, Germany: Association for Computing Machinery. Available: https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580725