He holds a B.S. in Innovation Sciences and an M.S. in Human-Technology Interaction from the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, an M.A. in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Ph.D. in Information and Computer Sciences from University of California, Irvine. Dr. Knijnenburg works on privacy decision-making and user-centric evaluation of adaptive systems and has led trailblazing efforts in the development of user-tailored privacy. In 2013, he was the recipient of the first Google Ph.D. Fellowship in Privacy.