Divergent Design Lab (CDM-030)

Summary 🟡 ✓

• Owner Unit: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
• Sub-unit: School of Design / School of Computing (interdisciplinary)
• Content Type: laboratory
• Campus/Location: Loop
• Last Verified: June 14, 2026

Description & capabilities

The Divergent Design Lab is a research and design lab focused on emerging technology, user experience, and contemporary social landscapes. Current research involves cybersecurity, vulnerability, malware, and social cognition. The lab has received funding from the National Security Agency (NSA). Co-directors are Paige Treebridge (MFA) and Filipo Sharevski (PhD).

Access status

• Level: yellow (Negotiated Access)
• Rationale: Interdisciplinary research lab; access through faculty co-directors and project affiliation.
• Access URL: cdm.depaul.edu/academics/research-and-creative-activit…
• Contact name: Filipo Sharevski
• Contact email: fsharevs@cdm.depaul.edu
• Verification date: 2026-06-14
• Source URLs:
• cdm.depaul.edu/academics/research-and-creative-activit…

Verification

• Status: confirmed (✓)
• Confidence: 85/100
• Rationale: Official CDM Research Labs listing names Divergent Design Lab, research themes, and co-directors.
• Last verified: 2026-06-14
• Evidence:
• CDM Research Labs listing (Divergent Design Lab section; NSA funding; co-directors)

Equipment

Design research lab; fabrication via linked makerspace.

Last verified: July 29, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

• Email: Filipo Sharevski

People & contacts

Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.

• Filipo Sharevski (Co Director) — fsharevs@cdm.depaul.edu · Profile

Source URL

Official links and email are listed under Contacts above.

Documented Relationships

Co-directed by Filipo Sharevski (PER-003), who also leads CDM-007 - Secure Design Lab and directs CDM-008 - DeMobile Lab.

Linked Relationship IDs

• CDM-007 - Secure Design Lab
• CDM-004 - CyberLabs

Documented connections

Generated from publication↔resource and person↔publication registries. Superscript numbers open Sources below. Multiple sources on one claim are grouped as ^1,4. Grant links are listed on publication and grant pages.

Publications

• Experiential User-Centered Security in a Classroom: Secure Design for IoT (2019) — supporting, mentions · DOI¹
• “Alexa, What’s a Phishing Email?”: Training users to spot phishing emails using (2022) — supporting, mentions · DOI²
• Meet Malexa, Alexa’s malicious twin: Malware-induced misperception through intel (2021) — supporting, mentions · DOI³
• Misinformation warnings: Twitter’s soft moderation effects on COVID-19 vaccine b (2021) — supporting, mentions · DOI⁴

People on linked publications

• Filipo Sharevski (coauthor; PUB-048)¹

Sources

1. gazetteer hit in OpenAthens PDF. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
2. gazetteer hit in OA full text. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
3. gazetteer hit in OA full text. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
4. gazetteer hit in OA full text. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source

Notes

New promotion 2026-06-14 from CDM Research Labs listing. Distinct from Secure Design Lab though Sharevski co-directs both. Source: packet 2026-06-14-cdm-csh-institutional-web-discovery.