Dr. Angelos Stavrou is Founder and Chief Scientist of Kryptowire LLC, a Virginia based Mobile Security company. He is also a Professor at the Bradley Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. Dr. Stavrou has served as principal investigator on research awards from NSF, DARPA, IARPA, DHS, AFOSR, ARO, ONR. He is an active member of NIST's Mobile Security team and has written more than 130 peer-reviewed conference and journal articles. Dr. Stavrou received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, M.Phil. and Ph.D. (with distinction) in Computer Science all from Columbia University. He also holds an M.Sc. in theoretical Computer Science from the University of Athens and a B.Sc. in Physics with distinction from the University of Patras, Greece. Stavrou is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Security & Privacy, and IEEE Internet Computing magazines and a previous co-chair of the IEEE Blockchain initiative. Over the past few years, Dr. Stavrou's research has focused on two aspects of security: Systems' Security and Reliability. Dr. Stavrou is a member of USENIX, and a senior member of ACM and IEEE.
