George Danezis Explained

George Danezis
Birth Name:George Danezis
Birth Date:1979 12, df=y
Alma Mater:University of Cambridge
Doctoral Advisor:Ross Anderson
Thesis Title:Better Anonymous Communications
Thesis Url:http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/g.danezis/papers/thesis.pdf
Website:http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/g.danezis/
Nationality:Greek and French
Thesis Year:2004

George Danezis, FBCS[1] (born 6 December 1979)[2] is a computer scientist and Professor of Security and Privacy Engineering at the Department of Computer Science, University College London where he is part of the Information Security Research Group,[3] [4] and a fellow at the Alan Turing Institute.[5] [6] He co-founded Chainspace, a sharded smart contract platform,[7] [8] and was Head of Research before it was acquired by Facebook. After leaving Facebook he co-founded MystenLabs and is one of the designers of the Sui Blockchain.[9] He currently works part-time as a Professor at University College London and as Chief Scientist at MystenLabs.

Education

Danezis was educated at the University of Cambridge where he received a BA in Computer Science and a PhD in Computer Science. His PhD was supervised by Ross Anderson, where he completed his thesis on anonymous communications.[10]

Career and research

Before joining University College London, Danezis worked as a researcher at KU Leuven in Belgium and Microsoft Research in Cambridge. He has published research on anonymous communications and computer security.[11]

In 2005, Danezis and Steven Murdoch published research[12] [13] showing that the Tor anonymity network was susceptible to traffic analysis that allowed adversaries to reduce the anonymity provided by Tor by inferring the network nodes that relay the anonymous data.

He has contributed to the design of anonymity networks including Hornet[14] [15] [16] and Loopix,[17] as well as the Sphinx packet format.[18] [19]

He has also contributed to the design of cryptocurrency systems, including RSCoin, a centrally banked cryptocurrency,[20] [21] and Chainspace, a sharded distributed ledger,[22] which was spun-out into a commercial company and subsequently the first blockchain start-up acquired by Facebook.[23]

Awards and honours

Danezis was recognised as a Fellow of the British Computer Society in 2014, an award given to those who "demonstrate a commitment to advancing standards; strategic leadership and best practice, and encourage this in others".[24]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: George Danezis. The Alan Turing Institute. en. 2019-01-27.
  2. Web site: George Danezis University College London - Academia.edu. ucl.academia.edu. 2019-01-27.
  3. News: The tiny UK start-up founded by UCL scientists now at the heart of Facebook's Libra currency. Field. Matthew. 2019-06-26. The Telegraph. 2019-07-21. en-GB. 0307-1235.
  4. News: A day without data. Cellan-Jones. Rory. 2014-10-29. 2019-07-21. en-GB.
  5. Web site: George Danezis: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg. www.bloomberg.com. 2019-01-30.
  6. Web site: Iris View Profile. iris.ucl.ac.uk. 2019-01-27.
  7. The obscure London startup that made Facebook's Libra possible. Volpicelli. Gian. 2019-06-20. Wired UK. 2019-07-21. 1357-0978.
  8. Web site: Facebook acquires team behind blockchain startup Chainspace. Schroeder. Stan. Mashable. 5 February 2019. en. 2019-07-21.
  9. News: Rodriguez . Salvador . Ex-Facebook crypto engineers raise $36 million from Andreessen Horowitz for Mysten Labs . 16 April 2023 . 6 December 2021.
  10. Web site: Dr George Danezis - Networks of evidence and expertise for public policy. www.csap.cam.ac.uk. 2019-01-27.
  11. Web site: George Danezis - Google Scholar Citations. scholar.google.com. 2019-01-27.
  12. Book: Murdoch. Steven J.. Danezis. George. 2005 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P'05) . Low-Cost Traffic Analysis of Tor . 2005. SP '05. Washington, DC, USA. IEEE Computer Society. 183–195. 10.1109/SP.2005.12. 9780769523392. 14029551.
  13. Web site: Tor Project patches critical flaw in its anonymizing network. Gallagher. Sean. 2011-10-28. Ars Technica. en-us. 2019-07-21.
  14. Perrig. Adrian. Danezis. George. Barrera. David. Asoni. Daniele Enrico. Chen. Chen. 2015-07-21. HORNET: High-speed Onion Routing at the Network Layer. cs.CR. 1507.05724v3.
  15. Web site: Boffins sting spooks with 'HORNET' onion router. Pauli. Darren. 2015-07-24. www.theregister.co.uk. en. 2019-01-27.
  16. Web site: Hornet browser promises to be more private, faster than Tor. Chavez. Ronald. Mashable. 27 July 2015. en. 2019-07-21.
  17. Book: Danezis. George. Meiser. Sebastian. Elahi. Tariq. Hayes. Jamie. Piotrowska. Ania M.. 2017. The Loopix Anonymity System. en. 1199–1216. 2017arXiv170300536P. 1703.00536. 9781931971409.
  18. Book: Danezis. George. Goldberg. Ian. 2009 30th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy . Sphinx: A Compact and Provably Secure Mix Format . 2009. SP '09. Washington, DC, USA. IEEE Computer Society. 269–282. 10.1109/SP.2009.15. 9780769536330. 10.1.1.1031.7608. 2616657.
  19. Web site: Researchers claim they've developed a better, faster Tor. Gallagher. Sean. 2015-07-24. Ars Technica. en-us. 2019-07-21.
  20. Web site: A Bitcoin-style currency for central banks. Simonite. Tom. MIT Technology Review. en-US. 2019-07-21.
  21. News: Bank of England plots its own bitcoin-style digital currency. Mendick. Robert. 2017-12-30. The Telegraph. 2019-07-21. en-GB. 0307-1235.
  22. Al-Bassam. Mustafa. Sonnino. Alberto. Bano. Shehar. Hrycyszyn. Dave. Danezis. George. 2017-08-12. Chainspace: A Sharded Smart Contracts Platform. 1708.03778. cs.CR.
  23. News: Facebook Makes First Blockchain Acquisition With Chainspace: Sources . . 2019-02-04 . 2019-02-05 . 2019-02-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190204230213/https://cheddar.com/videos/facebook-blockchain-acquisition-chainspace . dead .
  24. Web site: Fellowship (FBCS) Choose your membership Membership BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT. www.bcs.org. 2019-01-28.

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