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Richard Frank is a Professor at the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Canada and serves as the Director of the International CyberCrime Research Centre (ICCRC). He completed his PhD in Computing Science in 2010 and a PhD in Criminology in 2013, both from SFU. His research primarily focuses on Cybercrime with specific interests including hackers, security issues, dark web activities, online terrorism warfare, eLaundering, cryptocurrencies, and online child exploitation. Richard is the creator of Dark Crawler, a tool designed to collect and analyze data from the open Internet and dark web, which has collected approximately 150 million posts related to various extremist communities. This work has led to multiple projects and publications, contributing significantly to the field of criminology and cybersecurity. His notable research interests encompass the study of extremist uses of the internet, data mining and classification techniques in criminology, as well as environmental criminology. Richard is also involved in various grants aimed at addressing issues of crime prevention and cybersecurity.
Department of Philosophy