{"id":25,"date":"2020-08-19T15:20:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T19:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rbleiman\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2025-04-02T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T20:11:00","slug":"rachel-bleiman-b-a","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rbleiman\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rbleiman\/files\/2023\/11\/TU-CJ-Headshot-446-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126\" style=\"aspect-ratio:3\/4;object-fit:cover;width:215px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rbleiman\/files\/2023\/11\/TU-CJ-Headshot-446-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rbleiman\/files\/2023\/11\/TU-CJ-Headshot-446-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rbleiman\/files\/2023\/11\/TU-CJ-Headshot-446-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rbleiman\/files\/2023\/11\/TU-CJ-Headshot-446-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rbleiman\/files\/2023\/11\/TU-CJ-Headshot-446.jpg 1333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"rachel-bleiman-b-a\">Rachel Bleiman, M.A. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a<a href=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.temple.edu\/content\/rachel-bleiman\"> PhD candidate in the Criminal Justice Program at Temple University<\/a>, working as a graduate research assistant under <a href=\"http:\/\/dr-rege.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Aunshul Rege<\/a> on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=2032292&amp;HistoricalAwards=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NSF SaTC EDU<\/a> project, and I am a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CARE Lab<\/a> research team. I founded and served as <span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/wicys\" target=\"_blank\">Temple chapter of Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS)<\/a>\u00a0president<\/span>. My research interests focus on the human factors in cybersecurity, with my dissertation research focusing on human perceptions of political deepfakes and their authenticity-discernment decision-making processes. I have further interests in cybercrime, mis\/disinformation, ransomware, social engineering, and online privacy. I have experience designing, organizing, and leading <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">social engineering competitions<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/care\/social-engineering\/educator-workshop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">awareness &amp; training workshops<\/a>. I am proficient in statistical analysis using SPSS, ArcGIS, and Stata, and I have experience programming in Python, Java, R, and SQL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2022, I earned a Master&#8217;s Degree in Criminal Justice, and before joining the program, I earned a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice with minors in Psychology and Information Science and Technology from Temple University in May 2020. During my undergraduate career, I worked with Dr. Aunshul Rege as a research assistant studying the social science perspective of cybersecurity. As part of my university honors program, I designed and implemented a research study on the effectiveness of social engineering tactics among college students. I am the recipient of multiple awards and honors, such as the LAURA Award, <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/livingstone\/livingstone-undergraduate-research-award-in-the-social-sciences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Livingstone Undergraduate Research Award (Social Sciences)<\/a>, NSF SaTC PI Meeting Undergraduate Travel Grant, CARAS Travel Grant, and Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Bleiman, M.A. I am a PhD candidate in the Criminal Justice Program at Temple University, working as a graduate research assistant under Dr. Aunshul&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rbleiman\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Me<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":21994,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rbleiman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rbleiman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rbleiman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rbleiman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rbleiman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rbleiman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rbleiman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rbleiman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}