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Chris Kanich

I am currently a second year graduate student in the UCSD Department of Computer Science and Engineering, studying in the Systems and Networking Group.

Office:
3140 EBU3B
9500 Gilman Drive, M/C 0404
La Jolla, CA 92093-0404
Phone: 858-822-5647
Research Interests
I am currently interested in the economics of less than reputable Internet activities. Most recently this has taken the form of an interest in the returns one can expect when hosting and sending spam.
Recent Publications

Appearing at CCS '08:
Spamalytics: an Empirical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion Chris Kanich, Christian Kreibich, Kirill Levchenko, Brandon Enright, Vern Paxson, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage.

Appearing at LEET '08:
On the Spam Campaign Trail Christian Kreibich, Chris Kanich, Kirill Levchenko, Brandon Enright, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Vern Paxson, and Stefan Savage.
The Heisenbot Uncertainty Problem: Challenges in Separating Bots from Chaff Chris Kanich, Kirill Levchenko, Brandon Enright, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage. PDF HTML

Concise History
Before my California transplant, I spent a majority of my life in Ogden Dunes, Indiana, on the beautiful shores of Lake Michigan. I attended Purdue University where I majored in Mathematics and Computer Science. Outside of classwork, I conducted research under Sonia Fahmy and Cristina Nita-Rotaru.
Beyond my technical classes, I spent a large amount of time studying written and spoken Chinese, an endeavor which culminated in a summer abroad in Beijing, China.