Christian Sandvig is a fellow at the Berkman Center and Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Communication, Media and Cinema Studies, and at the Coordinated Science Laboratory. At the University of Illinois Sandvig directs the Project on Public Policy and Advanced Communication Technology. From 2009-10 he is also a visiting research scholar at the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group of the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T.
Sandvig’s research has focused the development of and information technology infrastructure. His work has examined such topics as expanding broadband access in remote locations, the difference between rural and urban Internet users, and the role of government in the provision of broadband service. In addition, as part of his research on decentralized wireless Internet funded by the National Science Foundation, he developed a technique that predicts Wi-Fi density per city block in the United States (called The RED Project).
In 2002 Sandvig was named a "next-generation leader in science and technology policy" in a junior faculty competition organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2006 he received the Faculty Early Career Development Award from the US National Science Foundation. Sandvig received the Ph.D. in Communication from Stanford University and previously served as Markle Foundation Information Policy Fellow at Oxford University.
Sandvig's research has been funded by the US National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council of New York, the MacArthur Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) of the United Kingdom, the Internet Society, and Intel Research, among others. Sandvig is also a computer programmer with industry experience consulting for a Fortune 500 company, a regional government, and a San Francisco Bay Area software start-up (now bankrupt, with the rest of them). He is a member of the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
Sometimes he writes about himself in the third person.
Last updated October 19, 2009