Rick Wash

PhD Student
School of Information
University of Michigan

SI North
1075 Beal Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Voice: 734-730-1188
Email: rwash@umich.edu
Web: http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~rwash

Research Interests

Understanding and designing software systems that influence the incentives people encounter in using these system, particularly for information security and social computing systems.

Education

PhD Student, School of Information, University of Michigan, 2005-present
Masters of Science, Computer Science, University of Michigan, 2005
Bachelors of Science, Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University, 2002

Fellowships, Research Grants, and Major Awards

National Science Foundation IGERT Fellowship, 2002-2004

National Science Foundation, “CT-ER: Incentive Centered Technology Design for Home User Security.” CNS 0716196, Jeffrey MacKie-Mason PI. 2007-2009. Budget: $200,000. Unofficial co-PI

Gary M. Olson Outstanding PhD Student Award. School of Information, University of Michigan. 2008

Journal Articles

   Theodore Loder, Marshall van Alstyne, and Rick Wash. “An Economic Response to Unsolicited Communications.” Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, vol. 6, no. 1 (2006). http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/advances/vol6/iss1/art2.

Conference Proceedings

   Emilee Rader and Rick Wash. “Influences on Tag Choices in del.icio.us.” In ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (2008).

   Rick Wash and Jeffrey MacKie-Mason. “Incentive-Centered Design for Information Security.” In International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC) (2007).

   Rick Wash and Emilee Rader. “Public Bookmarks and Private Benefits: An Analysis of Incentives in Social Computing.” In American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting (2007).

   Rick Wash, Libby Hemphill, and Paul Resnick. “Design Decisions in the RideNow Project.” In ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP) (2005).

   Thede Loder, Marshall Van Alstyne, and Rick Wash. “An Economic Solution to the Spam Problem.” In ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC) (2004).

   Jose Nazario, Jeremy Anderson, Rick Wash, and Chris Connelly. “The Future of Internet Worms.” In Blackhat Briefings (2001).

Refereed Workshop Presentations

   Rick Wash. “Incentive Design for Home Computer Security.” In iConference, Doctoral Colloquium (2008a).

   Rick Wash. “Mental Models of Home Computer Security.” (July 2008b). SOUPS, The Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, Poster Session.

   Rick Wash and Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason. “Incentive Design for Home Computer Security.” (2008). Presented at iConference 2008 Poster Session.

   Rick Wash and Emilee Rader. “Understanding del.icio.us Tag Choice using Simulations.” In iConference (2008).

   Rick Wash. “Incentive Design for Home Computer Security.” In ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, Doctoral Consortium (2007).

   Emilee Rader and Rick Wash. “Tagging with del.icio.us: Social or Selfish?” (Nov. 2006). Presented at Computer Support Cooperative Work (CSCW) 06 Poster Session.

   Rick Wash and Jeffrey MacKie-Mason. “Incentive Centered Design and Information Security.” (Jul. 2006). Presented at the First Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec 06).

   Thede Loder, Marshall van Alstyne, and Rick Wash. “An Economic Solution to the Spam Problem.” (Jan. 2004a). Presented at the MIT Spam Conference.

   Thede Loder, Marshall van Alstyne, and Rick Wash. “An Economic Response to Unsolicited Communications.” (Dec. 2004b). Presented at the Workshop on Information Systems and Economics.

Working Papers

   Rick Wash and Jeff MacKie-Mason. “A Social Mechanism for Home Computer Security.” (May 2008). University of Michigan.

   Rick Wash. “Content Provision under Digital Rights Management.” (Dec. 2005).

   Rick Wash. “Lecture Notes on Stream Ciphers and RC4.” (Sep. 2001). Case Western Reserve University.

Invited Talks

   Rick Wash and Jeffrey MacKie-Mason. “Incentive-Centered Design for Information Security.” In DIMACS Workshop on Information Security Economics (2007).

   Rick Wash. “The Economics of Malevolence in Cyberspace.” (Mar. 2005). Invited Talk at Case Western Reserve University.

   Rick Wash. “The Security of Trusted Computing.” (February 2004). Invited Talk at Case Western Reserve University.

   Rick Wash. “The Digital Millenium Copyright Act.” (February 2002). Given at the CWRU Chapter of the ACM.

Other Talks

   Rick Wash and Emilee Rader. “Collaborative Filtering With Del.icio.us.” (May 2006a). Presented at the STIET Spring 2006 Research Workshop.

   Rick Wash and Emilee Rader. “Collaborative Filtering With Del.icio.us.” (Feb. 2006b). Invited Talk in Yan Chen’s Winter 2006 Public Goods class.

   Rick Wash. “Valuing Security Products and Patches.” (June 2004a). Presented at the Second STIET Workshop.

   Rick Wash. “Vulnerabilities and Adversaries in Security.” (October 2004b). Presented at the Third STIET Workshop.

   Rick Wash. “Applications of Trusted Computing.” (October 2003). Presented at the First STIET Workshop.

Teaching Experience

Service

I was an external reviewer for Journal of Electronic Commerce, ICIS 2006, ACM E-Commerce 2007 & 2008, CHI 2008 & 2009, iConference 2008 and CSCW 2008.

I was Student Volunteer Coordinator for ACM E-Commerce 2006.

Work Experience

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