Markus Jakobsson
Adjunct Associate Professor of Informatics
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Other Titles
- Associate Director, Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research
Research Interests
phishing, fraud, crimeware, click-fraud, naturalistic experiments, secure interface design, social engineering, money laundry, cryptography, security, cheating, protocol design, efficiency, e-commerce, payments, privacy, wireless security, incentives
Education
Ph.D. in CS; M.S. in CS and CE
Biography
Professor Jakobsson received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at San Diego in 1997. He held a joint appointment at San Diego Supercomputer Center and General Atomics during 1996 and 1997, and joined Bell Laboratories as a Member of the Technical Staff in 1997. In 2001, he joined RSA Laboratories as a principal research scientist, where he stayed until joining IUB in 2004. He has been an adjunct associate professor at New York University. Dr. Jakobsson is the inventor or co-inventor of over fifty patents, and a founder of the startup RavenWhite. He has served as the vice president of the International Financial Cryptography Association, and is a research fellow of the Anti-Phishing Working Group. He is an editor of the International Journal of Applied Cryptography and a group editor of the ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review. He is an editor of Phishing and Countermeasures (Wiley, 2006), and editor/co-author of upcoming books on crimeware (Symantec Press, 2007), click-fraud (Morgan and Claypool, 2007), and cryptographic protocols (Addison-Wesley, 2007). He has served as the editor of the RSA CryptoBytes.
Dr. Jakobsson is pursuing research relating to cybersecurity and cryptographic protocols. Among other topics, he is interested in fraud, social engineering and phishing, and the prevention of these attacks. He studies how to perform experiments to assess risks arising from socio-technical vulnerabilities, in the context current and potential future user interfaces. He develops back-end countermeasures against phishing on his ample spare time. He is also interested in cryptographic techniques suitable for use in low-power wireless environments; privacy issues, in particular as they relate to payments, voting, web browsing and routing; payment schemes, and the use of economic mechanisms as incentives for collaboration; and techniques for making electronic commerce secure and reliable.
