George Danezis
George Danezis | |
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Danezis as a PhD student at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in January 2000 | |
| Born | George Danezis 6 December 1979 |
| Nationality | Greek and French |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
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| Thesis | Better Anonymous Communications (2004) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ross Anderson |
| Doctoral students | Mustafa Al-Bassam |
| Website | http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/g.danezis/ |
George Danezis (born 6 December 1979) 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, and a fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. He co-founded Chainspace, a sharded smart contract platform, 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. He currently works part-time as a Professor at University College London and as Chief Scientist at MystenLabs.