Fed Event: CISSM FORUM, OCT 13th

October 13th, 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm, 1203 Van Munching Hall

CISSM Forum | "On Critical Infrastructure Protection and International Agreements"

by Nicolas Christin, Associate Director, Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon University

Nicolas Christin is the Associate Director of the Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and a research faculty (Senior Systems Scientist) in CyLab, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Engineering and Public Policy. He holds a Diplôme d'Ingénieur from Ecole Centrale Lille, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Virginia. After a postdoc in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined Carnegie Mellon in 2005. He served for three years as resident faculty at CMU CyLab Japan, before returning to Carnegie Mellon's main campus in 2008. His research interests are in computer and information systems networks; most of his work is at the boundary of systems and policy research, with a slant toward security aspects. He has most recently focused on online crime, security economics, and psychological aspects of computer security. He equally enjoys field measurements and formal modeling.