Nikita Borisov

	Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Office Hours: 9-11AM Mondays Upcoming Travel: Feb 28–Mar 2 NDSS (San Diego)
	460 Coordinated Science Laboratory, MC-228 1308 West Main Street Urbana, IL 61801-2307 Tel: +1 (217) 244-5385 Fax: +1 (217) 244-5685 Email: nikita@uiuc.edu

Research Interests

My research interests lie in the area of computer security and privacy, especially as applied to large-scale distributed systems. My current focus is on anonymity: analysis of existing anonymous systems and the design of new peer-to-peer anonymous networks. In this research I take a systems approach, with rigorous, quantitative metrics of anonymity and analysis with help from simulations. I am also interested in other privacy enhancing technologies, such as techniques for privacy-preserving data aggregation, as well as research into building reliable and secure peer-to-peer networks.

For more information about some of my recent work, see my publication list.

Teaching

I am currently (FA'07) teaching CS/ECE 438: Communication Networks.

Past courses taught:

• Spring'07: CS498IA Introduction to Computer Security (now CS461/ECE422).
• Fall'06: CS/ECE 438: Communication Networks.
• Spring'06: ECE598NB, a special topics course on Privacy Enhancing Technologies.
• Fall'05: CS498CAG (aka CS463): Computer Security, co-taught with Prof. Carl A. Gunter (now CS461/ECE424).

Affiliations

Program co-chair for PET'07.

Program committee member for WPES'05, PET'06, SKM '06, CCS'06, WPES'06, DSN-DCCS'07.

Assistant Research Professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, Affiliate Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science, and a member of the Information Trust Institute.

Past Projects

• Off-the-Record Messaging is a protocol for private and authentic instant messaging, with plugins available for popular IM clients.
• ISAAC Research Group was a small group of computer security researchers at Berkeley. We found a number of security flaws in 802.11
• The Ninja project aimed to provide an framework for scalable Internet services.

Background

I received my Ph.D. and master's degrees from the Computer Science Division at UC Berkeley, advised by Prof. Eric Brewer. For my undergraduate degree, I attended University of Waterloo, where I got a B.Math in Computer Science and Pure Math. I've also spent some time at Microsoft Research and Entrust, Inc..