# John Villasenor

PROFESSOR
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Professor of public policy; Professor of management; Visiting professor of law

Email: villa@ee.ucla.edu
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Websites

- Personal Web

##### RESEARCH AND INTERESTS

Cybersecurity, critical infrastructure security, financial inclusion, vehicle automation, digital privacy

##### NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS

- John Villasenor, “Technology and the Role of Intent in Constitutionally Protected Expression,” Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Spring/Summer 2016
- John Villasenor, “The Fast-Evolving Uses and Economic Impacts of Drones,” Testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce; Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, November 19, 2015
- Lok-Won Kim and John Villasenor, “Dynamic Function Verification for System-on-Chip Security against Hardware-Based Attacks,” IEEE Transactions on Reliability, November 2015.
- John Villasenor, “Corporate Cybersecurity Realism: Managing Trade Secrets in a World Where Breaches Occur,” American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal, Spring/Summer 2015
- L.-W. Kim and John Villasenor, “Automated Iterative Pipelining for ASIC design,” ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, February 2015.
- John Villasenor, “First Sale Under Title 17” Testimony before the House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, June 2, 2014
- L.-W. Kim and John Villasenor, “Dynamic Function Replacement for System-on-Chip Security in the Presence of Hardware-Based Attacks,” IEEE Transactions on Reliability, June 2014.
- John Villasenor, “Products Liability and Driverless Cars: Issues and Guiding Principles for Legislation” The Brookings Institution, April 2014.
- John Villasenor, “‘Drones’ and the Future of Domestic Aviation,” Proceedings of the IEEE, March 2014
- John Villasenor, “Compromised By Design? Securing the Defense Electronics Supply Chain” The Brookings Institution, November 2013
- John Villasenor and M. Tehranipoor, “The Hidden Dangers of Chop-Shop Electronics: Clever counterfeiters sell old components as new, threatening both military and commercial systems,” IEEE Spectrum, September 20, 2013
- John Villasenor, “Smartphones for the Unbanked: How Mobile Money Will Drive Digital Inclusion in Developing Countries” The Brookings Institution, September 2013
- John Villasenor, “Observations from Above: Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Privacy” Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Spring, 2013
- Vivek Mohan and John Villasenor, “Decrypting the Fifth Amendment: The Limits of Self-Incrimination in the Digital Era” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law Heightened Scrutiny, vol. 15, October 2012

##### IN THE NEWS

- Fabricating An Artificial Emergency Isn’t Intelligent | The Hill, November 2023
- Fugees Rapper Says Lawyer's Use of AI Helped Tank His Case, Pushes for New Trial | AP News, October 2023
- Navigating the Multi-Headed Opportunity that is Gen AI | PYMNTS, September 2023
- Regulating AI: Three Experts Explain why it’s Difficult to do and Important to Get Right | Morning News (Canada), August 2023
- Opinion: Another Reason Hollywood Will Love AI | The Wall Street Journal, May 2023
- The Future: Incorporation of AI in Classrooms Will Facilitate Innovation | The Daily Bruin, May 2023
- The Rapid Rise of Generative AI Threatens to Upend US Patent System | Financial Times, April 2023
- Regulating AI: 3 Experts Explain Why It’s Difficult to Do and Important to Get Right | The Conversation, April 2023
- How ChatGPT Can Improve Education, Not Threaten it | Scientific American, February 2023
- INSIGHT - Lawsuits pile up as U.S. parents take on social media giants | Reuters, February 2023
- Chinese Spy Balloon Has Unexpected Maneuverability | Scientific American, February 2023
- Fight Over Big Tech Looms in Supreme Court | VOA News, January 2023
- As Crypto Chaos Continues, the Next Generation of Hires is Having Doubts | Marketplace Radio, November 2022
- Could the Internet Archive Go Out Like Napster? | Slate, September 2022
- Tesla monitored its employees on Facebook with help of PR firm during 2017 union push | CNBC
- It’s Time To Fix Diversity Training, Part 1 | Forbes

##### AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

- 2015-2016, National Fellow, the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
- 2014-2015, National Fellow, the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
- 2014, Selected as a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations
- 2011, Appointed as a Nonresident Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution