I am a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute. My research is about how country-specific regulatory factors and industry paradigms impact Internet engineering. For my doctoral research, I am currently conducting a comparative study of the relationship between telecom regulation and broadband Internet traffic management in the UK and the US.
I am also the Chief Computer Scientist at the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), a non-profit public policy organization headquarted in Washington, DC. My work at CDT focuses on a range of Internet policy issues including consumer privacy, net neutrality, and technical standards. At CDT I conduct original research and writing on numerous policy topics, serve as technical liaison between CDT and engineers at technology companies and within Internet standards bodies, and serve as CDT’s technical voice in public forums. During my time in DC, I have testified before the US Congress and and on several occasions before the Federal Trade Commission. While pursuing my doctoral work I am continuing to serve as CDT’s Chief Computer Scientist on a part-time basis.
I currently co-chair the Geographic Location/Privacy working group (Geopriv) and serve on the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). I am also a member of the Technical Working Group of the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG).
I joined CDT after completing my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science at Stanford University. There my work focused on computer security issues and included research into the structure and organization of botnets and online forums used to perpetrate fraud.