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Principal Investigator, Director of ESP IGERT program at UIC


Venkat Venkatakrishnan is  Full Professor at the department of Computer Science at UIC and PI of the ESP-IGERT. His research interests span topics in computer systems security and privacy with use of ideas from compilers, operating systems and formal methods for defending cyber attacks.
 email - web - 312.996.4860

Co-PIs and Members of the Executive Committee


Ranganathan Chandrasekaran
 is an Associate Professor at the department of Information and Decision Sciences at UIC. His research interests include enterprise risk analysis, security economics, e-business transformation and information systems strategies, IT adoption, assimilation, diffusion and organizational impacts of information technology.

email - web - 312.996.2847

Steve Jones
 is  Distinguished Professor of Communication at UIC and Adjunct Research Professor at the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include user attitudes towards online privacy, the social history of communication technology, health and new media, virtual environments and virtual reality, popular music studies, internet studies, and media history.
                   email - web - 312.996.3187

Robert Sloan
is  Professor and Department Head at the department of Computer Science at UIC. His research interests include c
omputer security, especially privacy, legal, and policy issues, computer science education, and application of computer science theory and algorithms to problems from artificial intelligence.
email - web - 312.996.2369

Annette L. Valenta is a Full  Professor at the department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences at UIC. Her research interests include assessment of social-behavioral issues in health informatics, user perspectives on health care technologies, and the role of information technology in patient safety.
email - web - 312.996.1452

Participating Faculty


Shantanu Dutt
 is a Full Professor at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UIC. His research interests include VLSI CAD, hardware security, FPGA testing and trust design, fault-tolerant computing, parallel processing, and optimization. 

email - web - 312.996.6465


Jakob Eriksson
is an Associate Professor at the department of Computer Science at UIC. His research interests include network security, network systems, mobile technologies and mobile sensing, and performance of wireless networks. 

email - web - 312.431.2103


Leilah Lyons is an Assistant Professor at the departments of Computer Science and Learning Sciences at UIC. Her research interests include  human-computer interaction for mobile devices and ubiquitous computing, computer-supported collaborative learning, complex systems simulations for science education, and interactive museum exhibit design.
email - web - 312.355.1310

Peter Nelson
 is a Full Professor at the department of Computer Science and Dean of the College of Engineering at UIC. His research interests include spam, phishing, data mining, and artificial intelligence.

email - web - 312.355.0349 (Dean's Assistant)


 Zizi Papacharissi
 is a Professor and Department Head at the department of Communication at UIC. Her research interests include communication theory and technology, political communication, online media, and research methods. 
email - web - 312.996.3188


Sol Shatz
 is a Professor Emeritus at the department of Computer Science, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering, and Interim Execuitve Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at UIC. His research interests include software engineering, security in online auctions, distributed computing, and concurrent software development.

email - web - 312.996.3422


Prasad Sistla
 is a 
Professor at the department of Computer Science at UIC. His research interests include security, formal methods in concurrent and distributed systems, and database management systems.
email - web - 312.996.8779


Jon Solworth
 is an Associate
 Professor at the department of Computer Science at UIC and Founding Director, Center for Research and Instruction in Technologies for Electronic Security (RITES). His research interests include computer security, operating systems, distributed systems, and networks.
email - web - 312.996.0955


Richard Warner is a  Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Center for Law and Computers at the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. His research interests include regulation of business competition on the internet, internet security, and the nature of human rights and their grounding in personal freedom.
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Lenore Zuck is an Associate Professor at the department of Computer Science at UIC. Her research interests are in theorem proving, formal methods and security, translation validation, verification of cryptographic protocols, and program analysis for security.
email - web - 312.996.3422


Chris Kanich is an Assistant Professor at the department of Computer Science. His research interests include economics of cybercrime, Internet measurement, human factors in Internet security.
email - web - 312.355.0950


Stephen Checkoway
is an Assistant Professor at the department of Computer Science. His research interests include embedded and cyberphysical systems security.
email - Web - 312.996.3422



Jason (lasonas) Polakis is an Assistant Professor at the department of Computer Science. His research interests include focused on understanding the security limitations, exploring the privacy threats that users face, and designing robust countermeasures.
email - Web - 312.996.3422


Supporting International Faculty


Zhenkai Liang 
is an Associate
Professor at the department of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore. His research interests include system and software security, web security, program analysis,  and software engineering. 
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Stefano Zanero 
is an Associate
Professor at the department of Computer Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano University, Italy.  His research interests include systems security, intrusion detection, and malware propagation.
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