Kimberly Claffy

Kimberly C. Claffy leads the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) in its scientific research and infrastructure activities. CAIDA's research activities focus on independent (third-party) assessments of the security, stability, and resilience of the Internet's underlying infrastructure, including its addressing, routing, and naming systems.

As the Internet infrastructure has matured, these research areas require interdisciplinary effort, including expertise in economics and policy as well as legal and ethical use of data. kc leads CAIDA's infrastructure activities, including software development, and data collection, management, curation, and sharing to support Internet research around the world, with focus on the health and integrity of the global Internet ecosystem.