Christian Sandvig is the  Director of the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC) and the H.  Marshall McLuhan Collegiate Professor in Information, Communication, and  Media at the University of Michigan. Sandvig is a researcher specializing in  studying the societal consequences of algorithmic computer systems. Before  moving to Michigan, Sandvig was a faculty member at the University of  Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Oxford University. Sandvig was named a  ""next-generation leader in science and technology  policy"" by the American Association for the Advancement of  Science. He received the Faculty Early Career Development Award from the US  National Science Foundation (NSF CAREER) in Human-Centered Computing. He  received the Outstanding Applied or Public Research Award from the  International Communication Association in 2023 for his work on redefining  computer hacking; this work was cited by the US Supreme Court. Sandvig's  research has appeared in stories in/on The Economist, The New York Times, Le  Monde, NPR, the BBC, the CBC, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and other  outlets. Sandvig's own writing has appeared in The Huffington Post, The  Guardian, and Wired. His research has been translated into French, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, and Hungarian. Sandvig received the Ph.D. in  Communication from Stanford University in 2002.