People behind OTF

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Ain Ghazal

Ain Ghazal is an Information Controls Fellow working with the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) to study Censorship Resistance Systems in global VPN infrastructure.

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Alexandra Dirksen

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Beau Kujath

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Ben Mixon-Baca

Ben Mixon-Baca is an ICFP fellow with the Censored Planet team at the University of Michigan, a PhD candidate at Arizona State University, and co-founder of BreakpointingBad.

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Gurshabad Grover

As an ICFP Fellow hosted with OONI, Gurshabad studied decentralized controls for censorship in India, Pakistan and Indonesia.

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Hammas Bin Tanveer

Hammas Bin Tanveer is a senior ICFP fellow in Information Control with the Censored Planet Lab at The University of Michigan, currently working at the intersection of next-generation technologies and internet censorship.

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Information Controls Fellow

Investigating China's censorship landscape via public job advertisements, as well as the implications of new technologies and the decentralization of censorship power on information-control strategies.

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Josh Beaker

Josh is working with the University of Washington to examine on-device information controls.

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Michael Collyer

As a Senior Information Controls Fellow, Michael worked with the Oxford Internet Institute to research internet shutdowns.

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Mona Wang

Mona Wang is an ICFP fellow working with Citizen Lab to conduct an in-depth analysis of the WeChat application’s security and privacy practices.

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Ramakrishnan Sundara Raman

Ram’s OTF Fellowship at the Citizen Lab developed a set of techniques and fingerprints to identify devices performing censorship, and measure their deployment in different countries.