Sepideh Ghanavati is an associate professor in Computer Science at the University of Maine. She is the director of the Privacy Engineering - Regulatory Compliance Lab (PERC_Lab). Her research interests are in the areas of information privacy and security, software engineering, machine learning, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Previously, she worked as an assistant professor at Texas Tech University, a visiting assistant professor at Radboud University in the Netherlands, and as a visiting faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2023 and the Google Faculty Research Awards in 2018 and 2021. She has more than 15 years of academic and industry experience in the area of privacy and regulatory compliance. She was a co-organizer of the NLP4RE and ESPRE in 2024, as well as the `Privacy and Language Technologies' at the 2019 AAAI Spring Symposium and has been part of the organizing committee of several workshops and conferences in the recent past.