I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Computer Science.

I received my Ph.D. from the UC San Diego Department of Computer Science and Engineering, studying in the Systems and Networking Group under Geoffrey M. Voelker and Stefan Savage.

Contact information:

In person:
room 1109 SEO (office) or ERF 2054 (lab)

Snail mail:
University of Illinois at Chicago
Dept. Computer Science
Room 1109 SEO (M/C 152)
Chicago, IL 60607

Phone: 312-355-0950

Email: ckanich@cs.uic.edu
skype: ckanich

My current work includes analysis of Internet attackers' financial successes, investigating human factors in effective Internet security mechanisms, and employing economic analysis tools to cybercrime.

I am very interested in new collaborations, motivated students, and lively conversation regarding security research - please email me if you are interested in any of these!

At IMC '12:
Taster's Choice: A Comparative Analysis of Spam Feeds. Andreas Pitsillidis, Chris Kanich, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Kirill Levchenko, and Stefan Savage.

At WEIS '12:
Analysis of E-Crime in Crowd-sourced Labor Markets: Mechanical Turk vs. Freelancer. Vaibhav Garg, Chris Kanich, and L. Jean Camp. PDF

At IMC '11:
GQ: Practical Containment for Measuring Modern Malware Systems Christian Kreibich, Nicholas Weaver, Chris Kanich, Weidong Cui, and Vern Paxson. PDF

At USENIX Security '11:
Show Me the Money: Characterizing Spam-advertised Revenue Chris Kanich, Nicholas Weaver, Damon McCoy, Tristan Halvorson, Christian Kreibich, Kirill Levchenko, Vern Paxson, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage. PDF

At WOOT '11:
Putting Out a HIT: Crowdsourcing Malware Installs Chris Kanich, Stephen Checkoway, and Keaton Mowery. PDF

At CSET '11:
No Plan Survives Contact: Experience with Cybercrime Measurement Chris Kanich, Neha Chachra, Damon McCoy, Chris Grier, David Wang, Marti Motoyama, Kirill Levchenko, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker.PDF

At IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2011:
Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain Kirill Levchenko, Andreas Pitsillidis, Neha Chachra, Brandon Enright, Mark Felegyhazi, Chris Grier, Tristan Halvorson, Chris Kanich, Christian Kreibich, He Liu, Damon McCoy, Nicholas Weaver, Vern Paxson, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage. PDF web

At USENIX Security '10:
Re: CAPTCHAs -- Understanding CAPTCHA Solving from an Economic Context Marti Motoyama, Kirill Levchenko, Chris Kanich, Damon McCoy, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage. PDF

At NDSS '10:
Botnet Judo: Fighting Spam with Itself Andreas Pitsillidis, Kirill Levchenko, Christian Kreibich, Chris Kanich, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Vern Paxson, Nicholas Weaver, and Stefan Savage. PDF

At CCS '08:
Spamalytics: an Empirical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion Chris Kanich, Christian Kreibich, Kirill Levchenko, Brandon Enright, Vern Paxson, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage. PDF web

Full publication list.