Nikita Borisov

Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Publications | Students | CV

Research Interests

My research interests are network security and online privacy. There is a natural overlap between these: privacy enhancing technologies can be used by attackers to evade detection, and privacy invasive technologies can be used by network defenders for situational awareness. As a result, the attackers and defenders frequently swap places depending on context, so I named my research group "hatswitch".

Teaching

• Spring'12: ECE598NB, Privacy-Enhancing Technologies.
• Spring'12: CS461/ECE422, Computer Security I.
• Fall'11: CS425/CSE424/ECE428: Distributed Systems.
• Spring'11: ECE391: Computer Systems Engineering
• Spring'10: ECE391: Computer Systems Engineering
• Fall'09: CS/ECE 598 MAN: Applied Cryptography with Manoj Prabhakaran.
• Spring'09: ECE391: Computer Systems Engineering.
• Fall'07: CS/ECE 438: Communication Networks.
• 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

Currently a program committee member CCS'11, WPES'11, and NDSS'12.

Assistant Research Professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and the Information Trust Institute.
Affiliate at the Department of Computer Science.
Member of the Advanced Digital Sciences Center.

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..

Contact Information

460 Coordinated Science Laboratory, MC-228
1308 West Main Street
Urbana, IL 61801-2307
Tel: +1 (217) 903-4401
Fax: +1 (217) 244-5685
Email: nikita@illinois.edu