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Dr. Christian Sandvig is an Associate Professor of Communication and a Research Associate Professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He studies communication technology and public policy. In 2002 Sandvig was named a "next-generation leader in science and technology policy" in a junior faculty competition organized by Columbia, Rutgers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2006 he received the Faculty Early Career Development Award from the US National Science Foundation (NSF CAREER).

Sandvig was previously Markle Foundation Information Policy Fellow (2001-2002) at the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Oxford University. He has also held a visiting research fellowship at the Oxford Internet Institute. He remains an associate fellow in Socio-Legal Studies (a research centre of the Oxford Law Faculty).

Sandvig received the Ph.D. in Communication from Stanford University (2002) where he taught in the Science, Technology, and Society; Public Policy; Communication; and held a research assistantship in the Graduate School of Business. He was also awarded the Nathan Maccoby Graduate Fellowship and the Rebele Fellowship for most promising First Amendment and media performance research.

Sandvig's scholarly writing has received best paper awards at meeting of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), the International Communication Association (ICA), the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), and the Telecommunication Policy Research Conference (TPRC).

The US National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council of New York, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) of the United Kingdom, the Internet Society, and other sources have funded Sandvig's research.

Sandvig is also a computer programmer with industry experience consulting for a Fortune 500 company, a regional government, and a San Francisco Bay Area software start-up (now bankrupt, with the rest of them). He is a member of the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.

Sometimes Sandvig writes about himself in the third person.