Network measurement, routing security, censorship, and malware threats to civil society.
Phillipa Gill uses Internet measurement to improve the security, reliability, and performance of networks. Recent focus includes online information controls (censorship and traffic differentiation), routing security, and malware threats aimed at civil society. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor; her primary appointment is as a research scientist at Google on the Measurement Lab project.
Phillipa Gill is an Assistant Professor in the College of Information and Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Prior to joining University of Massachusetts, she spent 3 years as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University, SUNY. She graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 2012. During her Ph.D. she spent time as an intern at Microsoft Research and AT&T Labs--Research. She was also a visiting scholar at Boston University. Prior to joining Stony Brook University, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the Citizen Lab in the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.
Her honors include an NSF CAREER Award, a Google Research Award, Best Paper Awards at the Internet Measurement Conference (2013) and Passive and Active Measurement Conference (2008) and a Best Presentation Award at the IBM Workshop for Frontiers of Cloud Computing. She was also a finalist for the Anita Borg Fellowship in 2009 and 2010.
Professor Gill has served as the General co-Chair of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (2016), Program co-Chair of the 2015 USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communication on the Internet (FOCI), and Program co-Chair of the ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop (2013). She served as an area editor for the ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review from 2013 to 2015.