Eric Chan-Tin

Dr. Eric Chan-Tin is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, the Director for the Center of Cybersecurity, and the Director of the Fellowship Office at Loyola University Chicago. He is the PI for the NSA/DHS Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense at Loyola University Chicago. He teaches mostly programming and cybersecurity courses. His research is broadly on network/computer security and privacy/anonymity. My research has been funded by the NSF, DoD, NSA, and various companies. He also organizes the Loyola cybersecurity club and coach student teams to participate in cybersecurity competitions.

Previously, he was an associate professor in the CS Department at Oklahoma State University. He received my Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota in 2011 under the supervision of Dr. Nick Hopper and my B.A. from Macalester College in 2006. His research areas are in network security, distributed systems, privacy, and anonymity; He has published over 30 peer-reviewed papers, including publications at conferences and journals such as ACM CCS, NDSS, ACM TISSEC, and IEEE TIFS. He has also previously worked as a Helpdesk consultant and software engineer at Guidewire and Retek (now Oracle).