Dr. Angelos Keromytis

Biography

Angelos D. Keromytis is a Professor and the John H. Weitnauer, Jr. Chair at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he also serves as a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar. His expertise lies in field research systems, network security, and applied cryptography. From 2014 to 2018, he was a Program Manager at DARPA, where he initiated significant research efforts in cybersecurity and managed a portfolio of nine programs, fostering partnerships across various government sectors, including the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Prior to his tenure at DARPA, he was a Program Director at the National Science Foundation, where he co-managed the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program, contributing to numerous interdisciplinary public-private partnerships. He was previously a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University, where he founded the Network Security Lab. Dr. Keromytis is a recognized leader in his field, holding 53 U.S. patents and publishing over 250 peer-reviewed articles, with his work receiving approximately 20,000 citations. He has been honored as a Fellow of both the ACM and IEEE and was recognized as an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2012. Keromytis earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001, following his M.Sc. in 1997 and B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Crete, Greece.

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