Gene Tsudik
Tsudik's research covers recurring security problems—authentication, privacy, Internet security, and trustworthy distributed systems—and his academic service helped shape venues for security research.
Gene Tsudik is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include security, privacy, and applied cryptography, with work that ranges across Internet and distributed systems.
Security research and community service
Before joining UCI, Tsudik worked at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory and USC's Information Sciences Institute. He later served as editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, now ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security.
Why it belongs here
Research on privacy, authentication, and distributed trust often determines whether a security mechanism can withstand real deployment. Tsudik's career is part of that academic and engineering history.
Timeline
- 1991Completes a PhD in computer science at the University of Southern California.
- 1991Joins IBM Zurich Research Laboratory.
- 2000Joins the University of California, Irvine.
- 2009Begins service as editor-in-chief of ACM TISSEC.
- 2017Receives ACM SIGSAC's Outstanding Contribution Award.
Gene Tsudik
- Type
- Person
- Era
- 1990s-Present
- Known for
- Internet security and privacy; Applied cryptography; Distributed-systems security; ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security
- Tags
- academic-research, security, privacy, applied-cryptography
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