Chris Kanich
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Computer Science
Contact
Building & Room:
908 SEO
Address:
851 S. Morgan St, MC 152, Chicago, IL, 60607
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About
Chris Kanich joined the Computer Science department as faculty in 2012, and is currently an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies. His research focuses on sociotechnical cybersecurity as well as algorithmic fairness, and has received over $5.5 million of government and private support. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award along with several research, teaching, and advising awards here at UIC. He has also served as a commissioner for the Chicago Advisory Redistricting Commission, on the board of the educational nonprofit Project:VISION, and is an active science communicator on YouTube and TikTok.
Education
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2012
Professional Memberships
- Program Committee, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy: 2015, 2016, 2019
- Program Committee, eCrime Symposium: 2016, 2017, 2018
- Program Committee, ConPro: 2018
- Program Committee, NDSS: 2014, 2018
- Program Committee, ACSAC: 2013, 2017
- Program Committee, USENIX Security: 2014, 2017
- Program Committee, WEIS: 2017
- Program Committee, LASER Workshop: 2016
- Program Committee, WWW Conference: 2016
- Program Committee, ACM CCS: 2015, 2016
- Area Editor, ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society newsletter: 2015-present
- Program Committee, RAID Symposium: 2015
- Program Co-Chair, CSET: 2013, 2014
- Program Committee, DIMVA Conference: 2014
- Publicity Chair, IEEE Security & Privacy Workshops: 2014
- Program Committee, HotCloud: 2013
- Program Committee, CSET: 2012
Research Currently in Progress
Cloudsweeper allows users to audit, encrypt, and redact sensitive information within cloud storage accounts. This project helps us better understand the role of cleartext password emailing, the underground value of stolen accounts, and new ways to improve the security of sensitive, globally accessible information.
The CRISP project is building a new web front end language and paradigm to enable rich document publishing while providing greatly increased privacy and security over traditional HTML/JS/CSS based sites.
Our Harm Measurement research effort aims to characterize and quantify the damage experienced by victims of cybercrime.