Rate My Professor Kirsten Wahlstrom

Dr Kirsten Wahlstrom (she/they) is a Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology within the College of Engineering and Information Technology at Adelaide University. She holds a Bachelor of Computing and Information Science (1993) and Master of Science (2005), both from the University of South Australia, and a PhD (2011) from De Montfort University, United Kingdom. A Certified Professional registered with the Australian Computer Society (ACS) since 2015, Wahlstrom has been engaged in teaching and research since 1998, initially as a Lecturer at the University of South Australia. Her research specializations encompass cybersecurity and privacy, privacy and data rights, professional ethics, technological ethics, social effects of emerging technology, human factors in cybersecurity, and information ethics. Notable publications include 'Privacy by design: a Holochain exploration' (2020, Australasian Journal of Information Systems, with Anwaar Ulhaq and Oliver Burmeister), 'Privacy and brain-computer interfaces: method and interim findings' (2017, The ORBIT Journal, with N. Ben Fairweather and Helen Ashman), 'A privacy-enhancing architecture for databases' (2008, Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, with Gerald Quirchmayr), and 'Legal and technical issues of privacy preservation in data mining' (2009, Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, with John F. Roddick, Rick Sarre, and Vladimir Estivill-Castro). She has edited proceedings for the Australian Institute of Computer Ethics conferences, including the 9th (2020) and 8th (2019).

Wahlstrom supervises Masters and PhD students on topics such as cyber threat intelligence, digital forensic readiness for insider threats, and fake news detection, and has acted as co-investigator on grants supporting doctoral research. She has held key ACS roles, including Chair of the Professional Ethics Committee (2021-2023), Vice-Chair (2019-2021), and Member of the Professional Standards Board (2019-present). As Associate Editor of the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society (2021-present) and Section Editor of the Australasian Journal of Information Systems, she contributes to the field editorially. Her teaching excellence is evidenced by five awards for outstanding practice, including the 2007 Carrick Award from the Carrick Institute for experiential learning through transnational teamwork.