Kurt Thomas Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Research in the area of social networks, underground economies, spam, and abuse. I work on mapping out the infrastructure that underpins social network abuse, the players involved, and how fraudulent and compromised accounts are monetized. I also look at how these technologies spill into other surreptitious activities such as political censorship.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Engineering work on developing new classifiers for detecting abusive behavior; measuring the impact of the underground economy on spam and abuse. Much of the work involved adapting research ideas into a production environment.

Security research on spam and the monetization of social networks compared to email.

Champaign, Il, Us

Security and privacy research related to social networks. Projects include multi-party privacy flaws in social networks where entities leak information despite privacy settings and the emergence of malware in social networks that propagates via social connections.

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

Internship related to forensics and digital reconstruction of mangled data; transparent virtualization environments for detecting malware.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Computer Science

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering