Kirill Levchenko

Kirill Levchenko is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, previously at UC San Diego. He leads research in cyber-physical system security, network security, and e-crime analysis. His work focuses on evidence-based studies of cybersecurity threats, including aviation cybersecurity and embedded system vulnerabilities.

Research Interests: Cyber-physical systems, network security, e-crime, Internet service abuse, and aviation cybersecurity. His major projects include the PacketLab network measurement system and aviation cybersecurity analysis. Key contributions span malware ecosystems, ransomware tracking, and healthcare privacy breaches.

Teaching includes courses like Computer Security I (ECE 422/CS 461), Computer Systems Engineering (ECE 391), and introductory computing courses. He advises Ph.D. and M.S. students in security-related research.

Labs/Teams: Based in the Coordinated Science Lab (CSL 458), he collaborates on projects like the Triton avionics testbed and PacketLab measurement tools. His work integrates hardware-software co-design for embedded security and network programmability.