Nikita Borisov (@nikitab) is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on privacy and anonymity of online communications, as well as protecting the Internet from censorship. He co-invented the Off-the-Record Messaging and the DP5 protocol for private presence; his research has also influenced the design of the Tor network and the 802.11 security suite.