Siddharth (Sid) Rao is a Ph.D student in the 'Secure systems' research group of Aalto University, Finland. He specializes in the security analysis of communication protocols and his current interest lies in pedagogical study of the evolution of telecommunication core protocols (e.g. SS7 and Diameter). He is a past Erasmus Mundus fellow and holds double master's degrees from Aalto University, Finland (Information and Network Security) and University of Tartu, Estonia (Cryptography). He is currently a Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow at European Digital Rights (EDRi), where he will help define policies related to data protection, surveillance, copyright, and network neutrality.
