Christopher S. Yoo, the John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science at Penn Law, was recently appointed to the Federal Communications Commission’s newly created Broadband Deployment  Advisory Committee (BDAC) by FCC chairman Ajit Pai.

The mission of the 29-member committee is to provide advice and make recommendations to the FCC on how to accelerate the deployment of high-speed (broadband) internet access by reducing and removing regulatory barriers to infrastructure investment.

Professor Yoo is a leading authority on law and technology whose research focuses on the principles of network engineering and the economics of imperfect competition can provide insights into the regulation of electronic communications. He is also founding director of the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition (CTIC), which is conducting a project analyzing which approaches to increasing Internet connectivity are most effective and efficient.