Nicolas Christin
Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Software and Societal Systems Department
Courtesy Appointment, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Nicolas Christin is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, jointly appointed in the School of Computer Science and the Department of Engineering & Public Policy. He is also a professor in the Software and Societal Systems Department and a core faculty member in CyLab, the university-wide information security institute. He also has a courtesy appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Christin holds a Diplôme d'Ingénieur from École Centrale Lille, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Virginia. He was a researcher in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, prior to joining Carnegie Mellon in 2005.
Studying Cybercrime for Prevention and Enforcement
Education
2003 Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Virginia
2000 MS, Computer Science, University of Virginia
1999 Diplôme d'Ingénieur, École Centrale Lille, Franc
Affiliations
Research Interests
- AI and ML for security
- anonymity
- Applications of security and privacy
- authentication and passwords
- autonomy
- blockchain
- censorship resistance and measurement
- computer security
- cryptography
- cybersecurity + privacy
- information networking
- Measurement and analysis
- measurements of fraud, malware, spam
- ML and AI
- mobile and app security and privacy
- network security
- privacy
- privacy engineering
- privacy policy and regulation
- risk analysis and management
- security analytics
- security and privacy economics
- security of AI and ML
- security policy and regulation
- systems security
- threat analysis and modeling
- Usability and human behavior
- usable privacy and security
- web security
Media mentions
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Bryan Parno honored with the IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice
Bryan Parno, Kavčić-Moura Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Computer Science, has received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Cybersecurity Award for Practice for his contributions to the theory and practice of end-to-end secure systems.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab faculty, students present research at the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium
Carnegie Mellon faculty and students presented on a wide range of topics at the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium. Held in Philadelphia on August 14-16, the event brought together experts from around the world, who highlighted the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab researchers present their work at 2024 SOUPS
Carnegie Mellon faculty and students shared their research at the 2024 Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), which took place August 11-13 in Philadelphia.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Anaxi Labs becomes strategic partner with Carnegie Mellon University for Secure Blockchain Initiative
Anaxi Labs, a scientific organization dedicated to researching and developing cryptographic technology, has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University to support technology creation through the Secure Blockchain Initiative (SBI).
Engineering and Public Policy
Christin appointed head of S3D
Nicolas Christin has been appointed as the next department head of S3D.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Christin named head of Software and Societal Systems Department
Nicolas Christin, CyLab faculty member and co-director of Carnegie Mellon University's Secure Blockchain Initiative, has been named the new department head of CMU's Software and Societal Systems Department (S3D).
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab researchers present at ACM CHI 2024
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute researchers presented 10 papers and participated in one special interest group at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024).
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab faculty, students to present at NDSS Symposium 2024
Carnegie Mellon faculty and students will present on a wide range of topics at the 31st Annual Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium. Held at the Catamaran Resort Hotel & Spa in San Diego from February 26 through March 1, the event fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners of network and distributed system security.
The Wall Street Journal
Christin discusses the U.S. government’s bitcoin
CyLab/EPP’s Nicolas Christin talks to The Wall Street Journal about the U.S. government’s bitcoin assets. “The government moves generally very slowly to dispose of those assets because they’ve got to do a ton of due diligence, the cases are often complicated and there’s a lot of red tape,” he says.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab faculty, students to present at the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium
Carnegie Mellon faculty and students will present on a wide range of topics at the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium. Held in Anaheim, CA, on August 9-11, the event brings together experts from around the world, who will highlight the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab announces first round of Secure Blockchain Initiative funded projects
Carnegie Mellon University's Secure Blockchain Initiative (SBI) is off and running, as six projects have been selected for its first round of seed funding. Through research, the initiative aims to revolutionize blockchain technology within enterprise ecosystems by tackling various challenges.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CMU brings together experts from academia and industry during inaugural Secure Blockchain Summit
On May 8-9, the Carnegie Mellon CyLab Security and Privacy Institute hosted the University's first-ever Secure Blockchain Summit, bringing together experts from around the world to share their research and discuss the future of the technology and its applications.