John Chuang

I am a Professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, with an affiliate appointment in EECS. My research interests are in bio-sensory computing (brainwave authentication, human factors in wearable computing) and information economics and policy (network economics, peer production, security and privacy).

I direct the BioSENSE Lab, a multidisciplinary research team studying the application potentials and stewardship challenges of ubiquitous bio-sensing technologies. I am also affiliated with the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC), the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), and the Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST).

Current Research

My research interests are in bio-sensory computing (brainwave authentication, human factors in wearable computing) and information economics and policy (network economics, peer production, security and privacy).

Education

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 1991
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 1992
M.S. in Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, 1997
Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, 1998

Something few people know about me
I worked for Jerry Yang before he became a household name, when we were both graduate students at Stanford. Unfortunately, I was working for him as a grader for an intro VLSI course in Electrical Engineering that he was TA'ing, rather than as an early employee of his Yahoo! startup.