Media Releases

NSA Surveillance

June 17, 2013

The fol­low­ing is a list of Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to experts who can com­ment on gov­ern­ment sur­veil­lance.

Cit­i­zen Lab
Com­put­er net­work attacks
Cyber espi­onage
Cyber secu­ri­ty
Cyber war­fare
Cyber­space gov­er­nance
Inter­net cen­sor­ship and sur­veil­lance 
Ron Deib­ert
Pro­fes­sor
St.George Cam­pus
Munk School of Glob­al Affairs
Depart­ment of Polit­i­cal Sci­ence
Cen­tre for Inter­na­tion­al Stud­ies
Knowl­edge Media Design Insti­tute (KMDI)
Office: 416–946-8916
r.deibert@utoronto.ca
http://deibert.citizenlab.org/ 
NOTE: No TV requests 

Inter­na­tion­al rela­tions
Nation­al secu­ri­ty, ter­ror­ism
South­east Asia
Unit­ed Nations
Unit­ed States for­eign pol­i­cy 
Arne Kislenko
Adjunct Pro­fes­sor
St.George Cam­pus
Trin­i­ty Col­lege
Munk School of Glob­al Affairs
Office: 416–946-8973, 416–979-5000 ext. 6206
arne.kislenko@utoronto.ca
www.kislenko.com

Inter­na­tion­al law
Strate­gic stud­ies, con­flict res­o­lu­tion 
Aurel Braun
Pro­fes­sor
St.George Cam­pus
Trin­i­ty Col­lege
Depart­ment of Polit­i­cal Sci­ence
Office: 416–946-8952, 905–828-3923
Home: 416–787-3702 
Cell: 416 844 5367
abraun@chass.utoronto.ca

Arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence
Com­put­ers and lan­guage, includ­ing machine trans­la­tion, nat­ur­al lan­guage pro­cess­ing, search engines and infor­ma­tion retrieval
Issues of pri­va­cy, dig­i­tal archives, elec­tron­ic waste, soft­ware safe­ty and com­put­er errors, the ‘dig­i­tal divide’
Social and soci­etal aspects of com­put­ers 
Graeme Hirst
Pro­fes­sor
St.George Cam­pus
Depart­ment of Com­put­er Sci­ence
Office: 416–978-8747
Home: 416–469-4530
Mobile: 416–428-9826
graeme.hirst@utoronto.ca
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~gh 
NOTE: Email only

Cryp­tog­ra­phy
Quan­tum com­put­ing, infor­ma­tion and cryp­tog­ra­phy 
Hoi-Kwong Lo
Pro­fes­sor
St.George Cam­pus
Depart­ment of Elec­tri­cal & Com­put­er Engi­neer­ing
Depart­ment of Physics
Office: 416–946-5525
hklo@comm.utoronto.ca

Iden­ti­ty Theft Hack­ing, Crack­ing
Online/cyber secu­ri­ty
Risk and threat assess­ment
Inter­na­tion­al busi­ness, con­tin­gency plan­ning, WTO, IMF
Mobile Com­merce
Tim Richard­son
Lec­tur­er
St.George Cam­pus
Depart­ment of Man­age­ment (UTSC)
Office: 416–491-5050 x77534
Cell: 416–677-3467
Home: 705–228-8731
richardson@utsc.utoronto.ca

Cyber secu­ri­ty
Cyber-phys­i­cal sys­tems
Mul­ti­me­dia sen­sor net­works
Smart grid 
Deepa Kun­dur
Pro­fes­sor
St.George Cam­pus
Fac­ul­ty of Applied Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing
Depart­ment of Elec­tri­cal & Com­put­er Engi­neer­ing
Office: 416–978-2731
dkundur@comm.utoronto.ca
http://www.comm.utoronto.ca/~dkundur/

Iden­ti­ty doc­u­men­ta­tion and sys­tems
Infor­ma­tion infra­struc­ture
Net neu­tral­i­ty
Pri­va­cy
Social impli­ca­tions of new media, inter­net, information/communications tech­nolo­gies 
Inter­net Sur­veil­lance
Andrew Clement
Pro­fes­sor
St.George Cam­pus
Fac­ul­ty of Infor­ma­tion
UK num­ber: 447980429277
andrew.clement@utoronto.ca
NOTE: Cur­rent­ly in Europe (phone num­ber deac­ti­vat­ed after June 19)

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For more infor­ma­tion, please con­tact:

Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to media rela­tions
Tel: 416–978-0100
media.relations@utoronto.ca