Adrienne Porter Felt

Adriana Porter Felt
Born
Adrienne Porter Felt
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
OccupationComputer scientist

Adriana Porter Felt is an American computer scientist.

Education

Porter Felt completed her PhD at UC Berkeley in 2012. Her dissertation research focused on computer security on mobile devices.[1] Her advisor was David A. Wagner. Her 2011 paper on Android permissions security won the ACM SIGSAC test-of-time award in 2022.[2]

Career

After graduation, Porter Felt joined Google. Her most well-known work there focuses on computer security and Google Chrome. In 2014, she developed malware warnings in Chrome that are more intuitive for users.[3] In 2016, she noted that the Google Chrome HTTPS lock icon looks more like a red purse than a lock. She conducted a study to design a more intuitive icon, and the new icon was deployed to users.[4] This work earned her recognition from the MIT Technology Review as one of their "Innovators Under 35."[5] In 2018, she worked on improvements to emoji in Google Chrome.[6] After working as a Director of Engineering for the Chrome team, she joined Google DeepMind as a Principal Engineer.[7]

Personal life

Porter Felt's father, Edward Porter Felt was killed in the September 11 attacks.[8][9] Through her father, she's a member of the Felt family descended from George Felt of Casco Bay.[10]

She is on the Board of Directors for Second Harvest of Silicon Valley.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Towards Comprehensible and Effective Permission Systems | EECS at UC Berkeley". www2.eecs.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
  2. ^ "ACM CCS 2022". www.sigsac.org. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
  3. ^ "Google Set to Change Malware, Phishing Warnings Following Study". threatpost.com. 15 July 2014. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
  4. ^ Greenberg, Andy. "Google's Chrome Hackers Are About to Upend Your Idea of Web Security". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
  5. ^ "Adrienne Felt". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2025-11-27.
  6. ^ Aue, Mary von (7 April 2018). "Google Enables Quick Emoji Use in Chrome — Here's How". Inverse. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
  7. ^ "After more than a decade on the Chrome team, I'm moving on to something new. Thank you to Parisa Tabriz for hiring me as a fresh-out-of-grad-school research scientist all those years ago, and for… | Adriana Porter Felt | 54 comments". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2025-11-27.
  8. ^ "Edward Porter Felt - Flight 93 National Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Archived from the original on April 14, 2015. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
  9. ^ "__apf__". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
  10. ^ "FamilySearch.org". ancestors.familysearch.org. Retrieved 2025-11-28.
  11. ^ Valley, Second Harvest of Silicon. "Meet the Team". Second Harvest of Silicon Valley. Retrieved 2025-11-27.
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