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 interests are in economics of network architectures, economics of information security, incentives for peer-to-peer systems, and ICT for development. 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 the chip logo for the MIPS R10000 microprocessor, now in the collection of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institute.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Selected Publications
(Full publication list)

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

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

Modeling the Adoption of New Network Architectures
D. Joseph, N. Shetty, J. Chuang, I. Stoica. ACM CoNEXT, December 2007.

On the Optimality and Interconnection of Valiant Load-Balancing Networks
B. Babaioff, J. Chuang. IEEE INFOCOM, May 2007. (PPT)

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.

Service Differentiated Peer Selection: An Incentive Mechanism for Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming
A. Habib, J. Chuang. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 8, No. 3, June 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 Students and Postdocs

• Moshe Babaioff (Microsoft Research)
• Sonja Buchegger (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm)
• Nicolas Christin (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Melissa Densmore (co-advised with AnnaLee Saxenian)
• Michal Feldman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Pedro Ferreira (CMU/Universidad Tecnica de Lisboa)
• Jens Grossklags (Penn State University)
  
• Ahsan Habib (Siemens)
• Benjamin Johnson (UC Berkeley)
  
• Paul Laskowski (Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa/UC Berkeley)
• Ashwin Mathew (co-advised with Coye Cheshire)
  

Conferences and Professional Activities (since 2006)

• 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)
  
• Program Committee, Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec 2010)
• 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 (Spring 2012): By Appointment
Voice: 510-642-7253
Fax: 510-642-5814
E-mail: <lastname>@ischool.berkeley.edu

Snail-mail:
School of Information
University of California at Berkeley
102 South Hall #4600
Berkeley, CA 94720-4600

The back of my business card (in chinese).