Jens Grossklags

Dr. Grossklags is an Assistant Professor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. He is affiliated with the Security and Risk Analysis program and a member of the steering committee of the Center for the Study of Global Financial Stability.

Previously, he served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Information Technology Policy, and as a Lecturer of Computer Science at Princeton University. In 2009, he completed his doctoral dissertation at UC Berkeley’s School of Information advised by Professors John Chuang (chair), Teck-Hua Ho, Deirdre Mulligan and Hal Varian. While at UC Berkeley, he also obtained master’s degrees in Computer Science, and Information Management and Systems.

He is studying information privacy, security, technology policy and networked interactions from a theoretical and practical perspective. Specifically, Dr. Grossklags is motivated to contribute to a better understanding of the current and future marketplace for personal and corporate information, and improved designs of the underlying evolving security infrastructure. His academic work is very cross-disciplinary and utilizes analytic, empirical and experimental methodologies. Please review his publication list here.

His published research has been honored with two best paper awards at technical conferences and a Google Faculty Research Award. Dr. Grossklags testified and was involved in policy-finding activities of the Federal Trade Commission, National Science Foundation, National Science and Technology Council/White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA ISAT), World Wide Web Consortium, and European Network and Information Security Agency. He occasionally acts as a consultant, for example, in the context of legal disputes.

Dr. Grossklags has been an invited visiting professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, during summer 2011. He was the technical plenary speaker on the topic of user practices and privacy and a panelist at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Annual Meeting 81 in Quebec City, Canada. Jens has given invited seminar talks at Harvard University, Princeton University, Cornell University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Michigan, HEC Lausanne, University of Cambridge, École Normale Supérieure, CyLab Japan, HP labs and DoCoMo USA laboratories and many other wonderful research universities and laboratories.

Dr. Grossklags currently serves as the Program Committee Chair (jointly with Jean Walrand, UC Berkeley) of GameSec 2012 (Third Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security), and contributes to the international program committees of Pervasive 2012 (Tenth International Conference on Pervasive Computing), WEIS 2012 (Eleventh Workshop on Economics of Information Security) and IoT2012 (3rd International Conference on the Internet of Things). He is an active reviewer for leading journals by the ACM, IEEE, and INFORMS, and funding organizations including the NSF, DoD and Swiss NSF. Dr. Grossklags is a lifetime member of the ACM.