Christo Wilson is a Professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. He is a founding member of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern and serves as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs in Khoury College. Professor Wilson's research covers a wide range of digital consumer protection topics using measurement-driven approaches. This includes areas like online tracking and privacy, deceptive "dark pattern" user interfaces, misinformation and radicalization, fairness and bias in machine learning, algorithm auditing, and empirical antitrust investigations of tech platforms. Dr. Wilson is co-PI of the National Internet Observatory, which is a NSF-funded project that is gathering data about the online habits of a large, representative panel of US residents. The Observatory makes this data available to qualified researchers around the world. His work is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, a Sloan Fellowship, the Mozilla Foundation, the Knight Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Democracy Fund, the Anti Defamation League, the Data Transparency Lab, the European Commission, Google, Pymetrics, Northwestern University, Underwriters Laboratories, the Motorola Foundation, and Verisign Labs.
