Welcome to our first researcher match! These scientists have never collaborated before but we thought it would be fun to eavesdrop on their "what if?" conversation. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

Sameer Patil is an Assistant Professor in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington (IU) and a fellow of IU’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR). Sameer’s research interests lie at the intersection of Privacy and Cybersecurity, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), and Social Computing. The results of his research have been published at top-tier conferences, such as CHI, CSCW, and SOUPS, and he holds several US patents. Sameer’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and Google. Learn more: https://privacy.luddy.indiana.edu/sameer-patil/

Indrakshi Ray is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Colorado State University. She has also been a visiting faculty at Air Force Research Laboratory, Naval Research Laboratory, and at INRIA, Rocquencourt, France. Her research interests include security and privacy, database systems, e-commerce and formal methods in software engineering. She has published over a hundred technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Learn more: https://www.cs.colostate.edu/~iray/

John Seberger is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in ComArtSci at Michigan State University, where he works with the Dean and an interdisciplinary team of engineers and communications scholars on humanistic and sociotechnical issues in computing and artificial intelligence. Learn more: https://www.cs.colostate.edu/~iray/

Special thanks to Finn Mokrzycki for editing!