John Chuang

John Chuang is a Professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, with an affiliate appointment in the Department of EECS. His research spans the areas of network economics, system interdependencies, P2P incentives, and usable security. The Chuang Sirbu Scaling Law is named for his work on scaling properties of multicast trees.

He received his Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and graduated summa cum laude in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Prof. Chuang is co-creator of BoxBabble, an ingredient-based search tool serving consumers with food allergies and sensitivities. He designed the registerfile and won the chip logo design contest for the MIPS R10000 microprocessor, now in the collection of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institute.

Curriculum Vitae: PDF (Version: August 2012)

Research Publications: listed by area and at Google Scholar

Selected Publications

I Think, Therefore I Am: Usability and Security of Authentication Using Brainwaves [press coverage]
J. Chuang, H. Nguyen, C. Wang, B. Johnson. 2013 Workshop on Usable Security (USEC13), April 2013.

Community-based Web Security: Complementary Roles of the Serious and Casual Contributors
P. Chia, J. Chuang. Proceedings of ACM CSCW, February 2012.

Colonel Blotto in the Phishing War
P. Chia, J. Chuang. Proceedings of Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec 2011), November 2011.

Loci of Competition for Future Internet Architectures
J. Chuang. IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on Future Internet Architectures: Design and Deployment Perspectives, July 2011.

Incentive Dynamics in Interdependent Network Security. Or: Buying a Raft and Out-Running a Bear
J. Chuang. Plenary lecture, 2nd International Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNets 2011), April 2011.

Secure or Insure? A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Information Security Games
J. Grossklags, N. Christin, J. Chuang. 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008), April 2008.

Hidden-Action in Network Routing
M. Feldman, J. Chuang, I. Stoica, S. Shenker. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, August 2007.

Improving Transparency: Extracting, Visualising and Analysing Corporate Relationships from SEC 10-K Documents
M. Gebbie, K. Norlen, G. Lucas, J. Chuang. International Journal on Technology, Policy and Management, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 15-31, 2007.

Network Monitors and Contracting Systems: Competition and Innovation
P. Laskowski, J. Chuang. ACM SIGCOMM, September 2006.

Free-Riding and Whitewashing in Peer-to-Peer Systems
M. Feldman, C. Papadimitriou, J. Chuang, I. Stoica. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 24, No. 5, May 2006.

Research Projects (Present and Past)

• economics of information security
  
• p2pecon: economics of peer-to-peer systems
• 100x100: clean-slate approach to network architecture design
  
• Denali: scalable network services
• EVA: extraction, visualization and analysis of corporate social networks
• stor-serv: service differentiated caching and replication
• miscellaneous: various "one-paper projects"

Courses

• INFO 290 Information Technology Economics, Strategy, and Policy
• INFO 250 Computer-based Communications Networks and Systems
  
• INFO 206 Distributed Computing Applications and Infrastructure
  

Current and Past Doctoral Students and Postdocs

• Moshe Babaioff (Microsoft Research)
• Sonja Buchegger (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm)
• Nicolas Christin (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Melissa Densmore (Microsoft Research)
• Michal Feldman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Pedro Ferreira (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Jens Grossklags (Penn State University)
  
• Ahsan Habib (Telenav)
• Benjamin Johnson (UC Berkeley)
  
• Paul Laskowski (UC Berkeley)
• Thomas Maillart
  
• Ashwin Mathew (co-advised with Coye Cheshire)
• Timo Smura
  

Conferences and Professional Activities (since 2006)

• Program Committee, Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec 2013, GameSec 2012, GameSec 2010)
• Program Committee, The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Smart Data Pricing (SDP 2013)
  
• Program Committee, 22nd International WWW Conference Demo Track (WWW 2013)
• Steering Committee, Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation (NetEcon 2006-2012)
• Program Committee, 2nd Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNets 2011)
  
• Program Committee, 38th and 39th Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC 2010 and TPRC 2011)
  
• Senior Program Committee, 11th ACM E-Commerce Conference (EC 2010)
• Program Committee, 19th International WWW Conference (WWW 2010)
• Conference Chair, 10th ACM E-Commerce Conference (EC 2009)
• Program Committee, 9th ACM E-Commerce Conference (EC 2008)
  
• Program Committee, 17th International WWW Conference (WWW 2008)
  
• Program Committee, 7th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS 2008)
  
• Program Committee, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2007)
• Program Committee, 4th International Workshop on Grid Economics & Business Models (GECON 2007)
• PC Co-Chair, 7th ACM E-Commerce Conference (EC 2006)
• Program Committee, ACM SIGCOMM Conference (SIGCOMM 2006)

Trivia

• I am as old as the first microprocessor, the first e-mail, and the first computer virus.
• I worked for Jerry Yang when we were both at Stanford. His job title back then was head TA for EE271 (not yet Chief Yahoo), and I was one of his lowly graders.
• You can find one of my earliest works in the collection of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institute.
• My colleagues and I have been credited for coining the term "p2p whitewashing attack" in 2003.
• I gave a talk in 2005 right before Sergey Brin spoke about Search, Google, and Life, except his helicopter couldn't find a place to land (or something like that), and so he missed my talk on Peer-to-Peer Search.
  
• Doug Engelbart came to my class in 2007 to demonstrate his original mouse, and I have photos to prove it.
  

Contact Information

Office: 303A South Hall (directions)
Office hours: On Sabbatical 2012-2013
Fax: 510-642-5814
E-mail: <lastname>@ischool.berkeley.edu