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Dr. Christian Sandvig is an Associate Professor of Communication, Media & Cinema Studies, Library & Information Science, as well as Research Associate Professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a researcher specializing in communication technology and public policy.

Sandvig is also an Academic Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and a visitng research scholar in the Innovation Lab at the MIT Sloan School.

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 (NSF CAREER) in the area of Human-Centered Computing.

Sandvig was previously Markle Foundation Information Policy Fellow (2001-2002) at the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Oxford University. He has been a visiting research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, associate fellow in Socio-Legal Studies (a research centre of the Oxford Law Faculty), visiting scholar in Communication at McGill University, visiting associate professor at Intel Research, and visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sandvig's scholarly writing has received best paper awards at meetings of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), the International Communication Association (ICA), the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), and the Telecommunication Policy Research Conference (TPRC).

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 other sources have funded Sandvig's research.

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.

Sandvig received the Ph.D. in Communication from Stanford University in 2002.

Sometimes Sandvig writes about himself in the third person.