Nick Merrill

Nick Merrill directs the Daylight Lab at the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. His work blends methods from design to data science to understand how corporate and state power tangle in technical infrastructures like the internet, and how that tangling circumscribes lives for people to live.

Threat identification techniques developed by the Daylight Lab are used by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs, and Meta. Nick has published over two dozen peer-reviewed articles in venues like CHI, CSCW, and Duke Law Review. His research has been covered in news outlets worldwide, including CNN, CBS, Forbes. He serves as an advisor to the Christchurch Call, a consortium of national governments, technology companies, and academics working to combat terrorist and violent extremist content online.