Giang Nguyen has arrived to work for the summer in the Networking and Security group. He received his undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley in 2005 and after an industry stint entered graduate school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is a PhD student. He has broad interests in networks and security, with a current focus on Internet censorship circumvention. This requires measuring the degree to which countries censor Internet traffic and what kinds of censorship they practice – for example, what Web sites are blocked in countries that censor Internet traffic. There are several ways of measuring this, such as relying on reports from affected users, or automatically generating traffic with characteristics suspected of triggering censorship and then detecting interference. While at ICSI, Giang will work with Vern Paxson, the director of the group, to build a better censorship measurement system.

Giang enjoys playing soccer and listening to music.