Scholar
George Danezis
Google Scholar ID: LCNVGpcAAAAJ
Mysten Labs & University College London
Citations & Impact
Citations
8,919
H-index
47
i10-index
92
Publications
20
Co-authors
170
list available
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- His research has been funded by the EU (Panoramix, Nextleap, Decode), EPSRC, MSR, ACE (GCHQ), and UCL. Sits on the board of the PET Symposium, and the ACM CCS and IH&MMS steering committees. Fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy, and on the advisory board of the Simply Secure Project, Open Rights Group, and previously Privacy International. Published numerous papers, including 'Narwhal and Tusk: A DAG-based Mempool and Efficient BFT Consensus' and 'Blockmania: from Block DAGs to Consensus'.
Research Experience
- Currently a professor at the Information Security Group within the Computer Science department at University College London; also a faculty fellow at the Turing Institute. Since September 2018, he has been part-time at UCL, focusing on commercialization and industrial activities. Supervises Jamie Hayes, Raphael Toledo, Marios Isaakidis, Vasilis Mavroudis, and Maria Schett. Ania Piotrowska, Mustafa Al-Bassam, and Alberto Sonnino have graduated with a doctorate. Shehar Bano and Sebastian Meiser were post-doctoral members of his team in the past.
Education
- No specific educational background details provided.
Background
- Professor of Security and Privacy Engineering, with research interests in systems security, privacy, anonymous communications, traffic analysis, statistical inference, smart metering, peer-to-peer security, and distributed systems security. He has a special interest in the application of modern machine learning to security problems, decentralization, and distributed ledgers.
Miscellany
- Open to short-term consultancy engagements around computer security and privacy research or design reviews through UCL Consultants.
