Zachary Kilhoffer

Doctoral Student

PhD, Information Sciences, Illinois (in progress)

MA, international relations, Webster University Vienna

BA, international relations, McKendree University

Research focus

I am interested in how we regulate new and emerging technologies to ensure concepts like privacy and security, transparency and accountability, and fairness and ethics. He focuses on AI governance — especially concerning risk assessment, impact assessment, and compliance.

Honors and Awards

  • Board of Trustees Scholarship recipient, McKendree University
  • Summa Cum Laude, Webster University Vienna
  • Schön Award for best master's thesis recipient

Currently Advising

Publications & Papers

For a complete list of publications, please visit Zachary Kilhoffer's Google Scholar page.

Kilhoffer, Z., Zhou, Z., Wang, F., Tamton, F., Huang, Y., Kim, P., Yeh, T., & Wang, Y. (2023). “How technical do you get? I’m an English teacher”: Teaching and Learning Cybersecurity and AI Ethics in High School. 2023 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), San Francisco. https://doi.org/10.1109/SP46215.2023.10179333 

Zhou, K. Z., Cao, J., Yuan, X., Weissglass, D. E., Kilhoffer, Z., Sanfilippo, M. R., & Tong, X. (2023). “I’m Not Confident in Debiasing AI Systems Since I Know Too Little”: Teaching AI Creators About Gender Bias Through Hands-on Tutorials (arXiv:2309.08121). arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08121 

Kaushik, S., Barbosa, N. M., Yu, Y., Sharma, T., Kilhoffer, Z., Seo, J., Das, S., & Wang, Y. (2023, August 7). GuardLens: Supporting Safer Online Browsing for People with Visual Impairments. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security. SOUPS, Anaheim. https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2023/presentation/kaushik 

De Groen, W. P., Kilhoffer, Z., Westhoff, L., Postica, D., & Shamsfakhr, F. (2021). Digital labour platforms in the EU: Mapping and business models. https://www.ceps.eu/ceps-publications/digital-labour-platforms-in-the-eu/ 

Kilhoffer, Z. (2021). What determines price in platform work? An empirical study on the impact of ratings, experience, and duration (Deliverable 12.3; Issue 12.3). InGRID-2. https://www.inclusivegrowth.eu/files/Output/D12.3_EIND.pdf 

Kilhoffer, Z., Baiocco, S., & Beblavý, M. (2019). The impact of digitalisation on labour market inclusion of people with disabilities. https://www.ceps.eu/the-impact-of-digitalisation-on-labour-market-inclusion-of-people-with-disabilities/ 

Kilhoffer, Z., De Groen, W. P., Lenaerts, K., Smits, I., Hauben, H., Waeyaert, W., Giacumacatos, E., Lhernould, J., & Robin-Olivier, S. (2019). Study to gather evidence on the working conditions of platform workers (VT/2018/032; Issue VT/2018/032). https://www.ceps.eu/download/publication/?id=26764&pdf=KE-01-20-054-EN-N.pdf 

De Groen, W. P., Kilhoffer, Z., Lenaerts, K., & Mandl, I. (2018). Employment and working conditions of selected types of platform work. https://www.proquest.com/reports/employment-working-conditions-selected-types/docview/2175798303/se-2?accountid=14553 

De Groen, W. P., Kilhoffer, Z., Lenaerts, K., & Salez, N. (2017). The Impact of the Platform Economy on Job Creation. Intereconomics, 52(6), Article 6.

Lenaerts, K., Beblavý, M., & Kilhoffer, Z. (2017). Government Responses to the Platform Economy: Where do we stand? (2017–30; Policy Insights, Issues 2017–30). https://www.ceps.eu/ceps-publications/government-responses-platform-economy-where-do-we-stand/