Nick Weaver

Biography

Nicholas Weaver, PhD, is a Senior Research Scientist and Research Mentor at ICSI. He is also the CEO/Chief Mad Scientist of Skerry Technologies, a developer of hardware and software for low-cost autonomous drones. 

Dr. Weaver’s research interests focus primarily on digital, explainable, and usually adversarial systems. This includes computer security and network measurement, with an emphasis on both large-scale attacks and large-scale measurement. He joined ICSI in 2003 as a Postdoctoral Fellow and has been a researcher there ever since. He was co-developer of the Netalyzr system, and, in 2011, a co-winner of the FCC Open Internet Research Challenge. He has also previously served as a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. Dr. Weaver received both his PhD and his bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley.

Publications

Selected Honors & Awards

• Co-winner, FCC Open Internet Research Challenge, 2011
• Test of Time Award: Internet Measurement Conference 2022 for Netalyzr: Illuminating the Edge Network
• Test of Time Award: IEEE Security and Privacy 2022 for Click Trajectories: An end to end analysis of the spam value chain

Selected Leadership Activities

• Regular Contributor to Lawfare Media

Areas of Expertise

• Robotics, Autonomous Systems, and Control
• Operating Systems, Cloud Platforms, and Distributed Computing
• Hardware Architectures: CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, Neuromorphic Chips
• Embedded Systems, IoT Devices, and Cyber-Physical Systems
• Computer Networks, Internet Protocols, and Web Infrastructure
• Network Security, Reliability, and Resilient Architectures
• Cybersecurity for Systems, Networks, and Cloud Platforms
• Threat Intelligence, Malware Detection, and Cyber Defense
• Risk Management, Trust, and Resilient Security Systems
• Blockchain, Distributed Ledgers, and Web3 Technologies
• Drones, Robotics, and Autonomous Vehicle Systems
• Technology Policy, Standards, and Global Governance
• Open Hardware, IoT Platforms, and Research Infrastructures

ICSI Activity