Nicola Dell

Nicola Dell is an associate professor of information science at Cornell Tech, the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. She advises Ph.D. and M.S. students in the fields of information science and computer science.

Dell has published over 80 peer-reviewed conference and journal papers, mostly at top-tier venues in human-computer interaction (e.g., CHI, CSCW), information communications technology for development (e.g., ICTD, COMPASS), and computer security and privacy (e.g., IEEE S&P Oakland, USENIX Security). Her work has received numerous Best Paper and Honorable Mention recognitions. She is also the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, a SIGCHI Societal Impact Award, and the MacArthur Foundation fellowship.

At Cornell, Dell co-founded and co-directs the Clinic to End Tech Abuse. She also serves as the director of technology innovation for the Initiative on Home Care Work in the Center for Applied Research on Work, and she was the inaugural Siegel Faculty Impact Fellow in the Public Interest Technology Initiative at Cornell Tech in 2023. She received a Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the University of Washington in 2015.