William Conner, PhD

William Conner University of Chicago MPCS

Assistant Clinical Professor, Masters Program in Computer Science

CONTACT INFORMATION
Email: wconner@cs.uchicago.edu

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. William Conner joined the MPCS on a full-time basis in January 2019.  Prior to joining the MPCS, he spent nearly ten years in industry working on security and privacy.  His previous positions include Senior Security Engineer at Braintree (division of PayPal), Software Engineer at Google, and Senior Research Scientist at Telcordia Technologies (formerly known as Bellcore).

Dr. Conner received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a member of the Multimedia Operating System and Networking (MONET) group.

ACTIVITIES / INTERESTS
Security and Privacy

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • M.S., Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • B.S., Computer Science, Washington University in St. Louis