BIFOLD Colloquium 10/10/2022

Georgios Smaragdakis is Full Professor, Chair, and Section Head of Cybersecurity at TU Delft. He is also Scientific Coordinator of AI for Peace, Justice, and Security initiative at TU Delft, Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and a Principal Investigator and Fellow at the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data. In the past, he conducted research at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative (IPRI), TU Berlin, Boston University, and research labs in the industry (Akamai, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica). Professor Smaragdakis’ research was recognized with a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Award (2015), a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship (2013), Best Paper Awards at ACM SIGCOMM (2021), ACM IMC (2018, 2016, and 2011), ACM CoNEXT (2019 and 2015), IEEE INFOCOM (2017), three IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prizes (2022, 2020, and 2019), “Best of ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review” (2019) and selected for Communications of the ACM (CACM) Research Highlights (2021). He is a senior member of ACM and IEEE. His research develops data- and measurement-driven methods to study and improve Internet security, architecture, and performance, and to enhance Web privacy and security.