Prof George Danezis, B.A, M.A (Cantab), Ph.D, FBCS 

George Danezis is Professor of Security and Privacy Engineering at the Department of Computer Science, University College London, and a member of faculty since 2013. He co-founded and acts as Chief Scientist at MystenLabs since 2021.

George has conducted research on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET) and Decentralised / Distributed Systems Security since 2000. His current research interests focus around secure communications, high-integrity systems to support privacy, blockchains and decentralisation, as well as the application of machine learning techniques to security problems. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers on these topics in international conferences and journals. 

In the past, he co-founded chainspace.io in 2018, and had his team acquired in 2019 by Facebook Novi to help design the Diem payment system. In 2021 he departed and co-founded MystenLabs, to commercialise his research as part of the Sui smart contracts platform. He has previously been a Researcher for Microsoft Research, Cambridge; a visiting fellow at K.U.Leuven (Belgium); and a research associate at the University of Cambridge (UK), where he also completed his doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Prof. R.J. Anderson.

He was the co-program chair of ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference in 2011 and 2012, IFCA Financial Cryptography and Data Security in 2011, the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop in 2005 and 2006. He sits on the PET Symposium board and previously the ACM CCS Steering committee and he regularly serves in program committees of leading conferences in the field of privacy and security. He has been a fellow of the British Computing Society since 2014.

Web page: http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/G.Danezis/
 Full CV: http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/G.Danezis/danezis-cv.pdf