research area

Available and Secure Computing Systems

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Current Projects:

Understanding User Investments and Response to Security Threats

Recent Publications

Jens Grossklags, Nicolas Christin, and John Chuang. Secure or Insure? A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Information Security Games. In Proceedings of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'08), pages 209-218. Beijing, China. April 2008.

Hirokazu Sasamoto, Nicolas Christin, and Eiji Hayashi. Undercover: Authentication Usable in Front of Prying Eyes. In Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008), pages 183-192. Florence, Italy. April 2008.

Nicolas Christin, Andreas S. Weigend, and John Chuang. Content Availability, Pollution and Poisoning in Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Networks. In Proceedings of the Sixth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'05), pages 68-77. Vancouver, BC, Canada. June 2005.

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Nicolas christin

Nicolas Christinnlicolas Christin is the Associate Director of the Information Networking Institute, where he is also faculty and a CyLab Systems Scientist. He was previously a resident faculty in our research and education center in Japan, CyLab Japan, located in Kōbe, Hyōgo Prefecture. He also serves as Faculty Advisor for CM's Master's of Information Technology-Information Security (MSIT-IS).

Education

Diplôme d'Ingénieur (1999) from École Centrale de Lille
Master's (2000) and a Ph.D. (2003) in Computer Science from the University of Virginia

Professional Background

In the final year (2002-2003) of his Ph.D., he was working at Nortel. He then spent two years (2003-2005) as a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, before joining Carnegie Mellon in July 2005.