Kyung-Shick Choi, Ph.D. is a Professor of the Practice and Director at Boston University, where he oversees the graduate programs in cybercrime investigation and cybersecurity. Dr. Choi has an established track record in designing and delivering law enforcement training programs in cybercrime investigation, including computer forensics and child exploitation investigation.
He is a founder of the Cybercrime Division at the American Society of Criminology (ASC) and the vice president of the Korean Society of Criminology in America (KOSCA). He facilitated the Korean Institute of Criminology global cybercrime project, Virtual Forum Against Cybercrime (VFAC), in cooperation with the United Nations, and served as an instructor and consultant. He has been invited to deliver lectures at the INTERPOL and the AMERIPOL summits and has also testified as a cybercrime expert in support of a cybersecurity bill (No. H2814) for the Massachusetts Statehouse.
Dr. Choi is the founding editor and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Cybercrime and Cybersecurity Intelligence. He also conducts his own academic research, focusing on the intersection of human behavior and technology and how criminal justice organizations can respond effectively to the challenges of cybercrime. Choi’s work has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals, and his books include Digital Forensics and Cyber Investigation (2022); The Foundations of Statistics in Criminology and Criminal Justice (2020); Cibercriminología: Guía para la Investigación del Cibercrimen y Mejores Prácticas en Securidad Digital [Cybercriminology: Guide for Cybercrime Investigation and Best Practices in Digital Security] (2017); Cybercriminology and Digital Investigation (2015); and Risk Factors in Computer Crime (2010). Dr. Choi is currently working on federally funded cybercrime- and cybersecurity-related projects with the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA).
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