Lalana is a Principal Research Scientist at
MITCSAIL and
co-directs the Decentralized
Information Group (DIG). She is also a
Web
Science Research Institute Research
Fellow and an Editor-in-Chief of
the Journal
of Web Semantics. Her research focuses
on modeling how social norms and legal rules
work in society in order to automate the
compliance of policy in information
systems. She is currently exploring various
facets of information management and policy,
such as the development of new paradigms for
exploring and integrating distributed data,
privacy aware analysis of Big (Linked) Data,
and accessibility of mobile apps.
She received PhD and
M.S. degrees from
the University of Maryland, Baltimore County where
she worked with the Ebiquity group
on various aspects of trust, security, and general policy management in dynamic
distributed environments including the Semantic Web, multi-agent
systems, and pervasive computing systems.
