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

George Danezis is a researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge. He has been working on
anonymous communications, privacy enhancing technologies, and traffic analysis for the last 9 years, 
at MSR Cambridge (UK), K.U.Leuven (Belgium) and the University of Cambridge (UK), where he completed 
his doctoral dissertation in 2004. 

His theoretical contributions to the PET field include the established information theoretic metric for 
anonymity and the study of statistical attacks against mix systems. On the practical side he is one of the 
lead designers of Mixminion, the next generation remailer, and has worked on the traffic analysis of deployed 
protocols such as SSL and Tor. His current research interests focus around peer-to-peer and social network 
security, as well as the application of machine learning techniques to security problems.

He was the co-chair of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop in 2005 and 2006, he serves on the 
PET Symposium board and regularly participates in program committees of leading conferences in the field 
of privacy and security.

Web page: http://research.microsoft.com/~gdane
 Full CV: http://research.microsoft.com/~gdane/Danezis-cv.pdf