Biography
Christo Wilson is a professor and the associate dean of undergraduate programs in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston. He is a founding member of Northeastern's Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute.
Wilson’s research lies at the intersection of Big Data, security, and privacy, while drawing on methods from the computer, social, political, and economic sciences. He is a 2019 Sloan Fellow and a 2019–20 Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. His work has been supported by an NSF Career Award, the Sloan Foundation, the Mozilla Foundation, the Knight Foundation, the Democracy Fund, the Data Transparency Lab, the European Commission, Google, and Verisign Labs.
Wilson's research has earned widespread recognition, including best paper awards at SIGCOMM, NDSS, and ICWSM, as well as honorable mentions at CHI and CSCW. His work on improving TLS security was recognized with an IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Innovation, and his work on understanding the impact of policy on DNSSEC deployment was honored with an IRTF/Internet Society Applied Networking Research Prize. Additionally, Wilson's work on modeling the privacy implications of online advertising received a Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award from the Future of Privacy Forum. His work has been covered extensively in the press, including by the CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post.
Wilson is a member of several academic communities. In 2018, he served as co-general chair of the inaugural ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, and he continues to serve on the conference's executive committee. He regularly serves on the program committees for conferences such as IMC, WWW, ICWSM, IEEE Security and Privacy, and PETS.
