George Danezis

George Danezis
Danezis as a PhD student at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in January 2000
Born
George Danezis

(1979-12-06) 6 December 1979 (age 44)
NationalityGreek and French[3]
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisBetter Anonymous Communications (2004)
Doctoral advisorRoss Anderson
Websitehttp://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/g.danezis/

George Danezis, FBCS[1] (born 6 December 1979)[3] 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,[4][5] and a fellow at the Alan Turing Institute.[1][6][7] He co-founded Chainspace, a sharded smart contract platform,[8][9][4] and was Head of Research before it was acquired by Facebook.[8][9][4][10] After leaving Facebook he co-founded MystenLabs and is one of the designers of the Sui Blockchain.[11] He currently works part-time as a Professor at University College London and as Chief Scientist at MystenLabs.

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  11. ^ Rodriguez, Salvador (6 December 2021). "Ex-Facebook crypto engineers raise $36 million from Andreessen Horowitz for Mysten Labs". Retrieved 16 April 2023.