David Choffnes
Professor at Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Choffnes is a Professor at Northeastern University and Executive Director of its Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, with 14 years of experience building and evaluating distributed systems and networking research that spans IoT, mobile, and web privacy and security. He designs practical systems and artifacts used by over a million consumers and produces datasets and reports that have informed researchers, regulators, and legislators. His work bridges technical, policy, and legal arenas as affiliate faculty at the Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity, enabling research to influence real-world debates. Trained as a physicist and computer scientist (BA Amherst, PhD Northwestern), he blends rigorous experimental methods with systems-building, and his teams consistently prioritize transparency and reproducibility in measurements that scale.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA Physics and French, BA Physics and French at Amherst CollegePhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Northwestern University
Github Skills (7)
java9
android9
kotlin9
android-app4
traceroute4
security1
command-line1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
drchoffnes/uw-prober
Jan 2013 - Jan 2013
Contributions:3 commits in 2 days
Mobiperf/MobiPerf
Mar 2012 - Dec 2014
New MobiPerf Repository
Contributions:52 commits in 2 years 9 months
kotlinjavaandroid
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