Short bio
George Theodorakopoulos received the Diploma degree from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 2002, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, in 2004 and 2007, all in electrical and computer engineering.
He is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, which he joined in 2012. From 2007 to 2011, he was a Senior Researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He is a co-author (with John Baras) of the book Path Problems in Networks (Morgan & Claypool, 2010).
He received the Best Paper award at the ACM Workshop on Wireless Security, October 2004, for “Trust evaluation in ad-hoc networks” and the 2007 IEEE ComSoc Leonard Abraham prize for “On trust models and trust evaluation metrics for ad hoc networks.” He co-authored “Quantifying Location Privacy,” which was runner-up for the 2012 PET Award (Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies) and received the Test of Time Award at the 2021 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.
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