Rate My Professor Janne Lindqvist

Lindqvist's research specializes in security engineering, science of security, human-computer interaction, user research, privacy engineering, systems security and privacy, and usable security and privacy. He is the recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award and was the first researcher in Finland to receive a Mozilla Research Grant in 2020 for a project investigating user experience in online video streaming. His publication record includes highly cited works such as "Expectation and purpose: understanding users' mental models of mobile app privacy through crowdsourcing" (2012, 723 citations), "I'm the mayor of my house: examining why people use Foursquare—a social-driven location sharing application" (2011, 624 citations), "Whose move is it anyway? Authenticating smart wearable devices using unique head movement patterns" (2016, 167 citations), and "The motivations and experiences of the on-demand mobile workforce" (2014, 157 citations). Recent awards include CHI Best Paper Awards in 2024 and 2026, and a CHI Honorable Mention Award in 2025. Lindqvist has served as Principal Investigator on projects such as ENJOYSEC (2022-2024) and MAGE (2021-2025), contributed to program committees for CHI and the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, delivered keynotes including at UbiComp 2020, and acted as an opponent for doctoral dissertations.