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Overview

George Danezis is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and specializes primarily in computer science. Their research focuses mainly on blockchain technology applications and security, distributed systems and fault tolerance, and cryptography and data security. Additional areas of work include artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, information systems, and topics related to privacy-preserving technologies and advanced malware detection techniques.

The recent publications of George Danezis reflect a concentration on distributed consensus mechanisms, blockchain, and security systems. Notable papers include:

  • "Detecting Malware with Information Complexity," 2020, published in Entropy
  • "Narwhal and Tusk: A DAG-based Mempool and Efficient BFT Consensus," 2021, published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "FastPay: High-Performance Byzantine Fault Tolerant Settlement," 2020, published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Mysticeti: Reaching the Limits of Latency with Uncertified DAGs," 2023, published by Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • "Dynamic Blockchain Sharding," 2022, published by Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)

Danezis frequently collaborates with colleagues in related research areas. The principal co-authors include:

  • Alberto Sonnino (11 joint publications)
  • Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias (5 joint publications)
  • Alexander Spiegelman (3 joint publications)
  • Mustafa Al-Bassam (2 joint publications)
  • Shehar Bano (2 joint publications)

The most common venues for George Danezis's work are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 11 publications
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl) with 2 publications
  • Entropy with 1 publication

Their research contributions span several subfields of computer science, including computer networks and communications, information systems, and artificial intelligence. Topics of particular emphasis incorporate blockchain security, distributed fault-tolerant systems, cryptography, network security and intrusion detection, and anomaly detection techniques.

Best Publications

  • Towards an information theoretic metric for anonymity

    Andrei Serjantov;George Danezis

  • Mixminion: design of a type III anonymous remailer protocol

    G. Danezis;R. Dingledine;N. Mathewson

  • Low-cost traffic analysis of Tor

    S.J. Murdoch;G. Danezis

  • SybilInfer: Detecting Sybil Nodes using Social Networks.

    George Danezis;Prateek Mittal

  • Privacy-preserving smart metering

    Alfredo Rial;George Danezis

  • Privacy-friendly aggregation for the smart-grid

    Klaus Kursawe;George Danezis;Markulf Kohlweiss

  • LOGAN: Membership Inference Attacks Against Generative Models

    Jamie Hayes;Luca Melis;George Danezis;Emiliano De Cristofaro

  • Statistical disclosure or intersection attacks on anonymity systems

    George Danezis;Andrei Serjantov

  • Narwhal and Tusk: a DAG-based mempool and efficient BFT consensus

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  • Centrally Banked Cryptocurrencies

    George Danezis;Sarah Meiklejohn

  • Chainspace: A Sharded Smart Contracts Platform

    Mustafa Al-Bassam;Alberto Sonnino;Shehar Bano;Dave Hrycyszyn

  • Prying Data out of a Social Network

    Joseph Bonneau;Jonathan Anderson;George Danezis

  • SoK: Consensus in the Age of Blockchains

    Shehar Bano;Alberto Sonnino;Mustafa Al-Bassam;Sarah Azouvi

  • Statistical Disclosure Attacks

    George Danezis

  • k-fingerprinting: a Robust Scalable Website Fingerprinting Technique

    Jamie Hayes;George Danezis

  • A study on the value of location privacy

    Dan Cvrcek;Marek Kumpost;Vashek Matyas;George Danezis

  • Consensus in the Age of Blockchains.

    Shehar Bano;Alberto Sonnino;Mustafa Al-Bassam;Sarah Azouvi

  • Sybil-resistant DHT routing

    George Danezis;Chris Lesniewski-Laas;M. Frans Kaashoek;Ross Anderson

  • How Much is Location Privacy Worth

    George Danezis;Stephen Lewis;Ross J. Anderson

  • The traffic analysis of continuous-time mixes

    George Danezis

  • Denial of service or denial of security

    Nikita Borisov;George Danezis;Prateek Mittal;Parisa Tabriz

  • Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Computer and communications security

    Yan Chen;George Danezis;Vitaly Shmatikov

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudia Diaz
Claudia Diaz KU Leuven
Markulf Kohlweiss
Markulf Kohlweiss University of Edinburgh
Tuomas Aura
Tuomas Aura Aalto University
Ross Anderson
Ross Anderson University of Cambridge
Virgil D. Gligor
Virgil D. Gligor Carnegie Mellon University
Bruno Crispo
Bruno Crispo University of Trento
Bart Preneel
Bart Preneel KU Leuven
Ian Goldberg
Ian Goldberg University of Waterloo
Cédric Fournet
Cédric Fournet Microsoft (United States)
Emiliano De Cristofaro
Emiliano De Cristofaro University of California, Riverside

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