Alan Mislove

Alan Mislove is a Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University and serves as Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Interim Executive Director of the Institute of Experiential Artificial Intelligence (EAI). He is also a core faculty member of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute and EAI at Northeastern.

His research focuses on algorithmic auditing, fairness, and privacy in online systems. Notably, he has testified before Congress on algorithmic discrimination, challenged the CFAA in ACLU litigation, and contributed to landmark FTC and DOJ cases against Meta. His work has been funded by the NSF, Army Research Office, Google, and Amazon Web Services.

Mislove’s academic leadership includes roles in Khoury College, where he supports over 2,000 students and faculty. He has advised numerous PhD students, including current research scientist Piotr Sapieżyński. His lab explores algorithmic transparency, PKI security, and middlebox traffic differentiation.

Key awards include the 2017 ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award and recognition for work on QUIC protocol evaluation. He has authored over 150 publications, including seminal studies on Facebook ad discrimination and Uber’s surge pricing.

His teaching spans systems, networks, and social computing courses, emphasizing experiential learning. Mislove actively serves on program committees for IMC, PETS, and other top conferences, and contributed to policy as Deputy U.S. CTO for Privacy (2023–2024).