Laurin B. Weissinger teaches at the Department of Computer Science, Tufts University, focusing on security, artificial inteligence, risk, complex systems, digital trust, and the socio-technical dimension. He is also the Cybersecurity Fellow and an ISP Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School.
Laurin studies and teaches cybersecurity from a socio-technological perspective, which integrates technical and social/organizational elements. He utilizes multidisciplinary methods to explore the technical, social, organizational, and political aspects of cybersecurity, AI, and risk in practice, as well as global cyber governance. Recently, he has also looked into the interactions between security, AI, privacy, and standards.
Laurin’s research and policy work are informed by his seventeen years working in IT as a systems administrator, architect, and security consultant in the healthcare industry, as well as in technology consulting.
Additionally, Laurin has varied international cybersecurity policy experience, advising, supporting, and/or working with anti-abuse organizations APWG, M3AAWG, and FIRST. He is also a member of ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) and has served as a Vice-Chair for the Second Security, Stability, and Resiliency Review for the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Final Report, January 2021). He has been part of various other policy documents, research reports, and best practices for the above-mentioned organizations.
In terms of research methodology, Laurin has considerable experience in (expert) interviewing; policy and technical analysis; as well as quantitative data analysis, particularly network analysis and statistics. Having collected primary data for all his research, he is also experienced in organizing and conducting data collection in the field. He served as a guest editor for a special issue on data collection for the Social Networks Journal.
Laurin received his DPhil (PhD) from University of Oxford, where he conducted an in-depth study of trust assurance in cybersecurity. Additionally, Laurin holds an MSc from Oxford, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and a BA from University of Birmingham. Laurin holds a number of professional certifications in security and privacy (CISSP, CCSP, HCISPP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, CIPT, CIPM, CIPP/E, CIPP/US).
Yale Law School, Information Society Project
The Internet Law and Policy Foundry
Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Cybersecurity Oxford, University of Oxford
ExLegi Institute, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford
Visiting Scholar, Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley
Visiting Scholar, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Utrecht University
2024 - Digital Trust
2024 - Addressing Cyber Threats and Vulnerabilities (Security Risk Management)
2020 - 2022 - The Cyber World - 2021 Syllabus
2021 - 2024 - How Systems Fail: Policy Class - 2021 Syllabus
2020 - 2024 - How Systems Work: Policy Class - 2020 Syllabus
2018 - 2019 - Cybersecurity at Yale Law School - 2019 Syllabus
2019 - Reading Group: Cybersecurity Policy at Yale Law School - Syllabus
Tutor at different Oxford colleges
AI, Complexity, and Regulation. OUP Handbook on AI Governance, in print, 2023.
With multiple co-authors: COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in low- and middle-income countries. Nature Medicine, 2021.
With Dave Piscetello and Bill Wilson: ICANN, GDPR, and the WHOIS: A Users Survey - Three Years Later. M3AAWG and APWG Report, 2021.
Vaccination passport apps could help society reopen – first they have to be secure, private and trusted. The Conversation, 2021.
With multiple co-authors: Vaccination Verification Systems. Brookings Institution, 2021.
The Challenge of Networked Complexity to NATO’s Digital Security. CCDCOE Special Publication, Peer Reviewed, 2020.
Building trust and co-designing a study of trust and co-operation: Observations from a network study in a high-risk, high-security environment. Social Networks, 2020.
Contact Tracing: Centralize or Decentralize., Book Chapter, 2020.