Gene Tsudik

Gene Tsudik
Gene Tsudik
Alma mater	University of Southern California (PhD, 1991)
Known for	Internet security, privacy, distributed systems, IoT security
Awards	Fulbright Scholar and Specialist (3×); IEEE Fellow (2013); ACM Fellow (2014); Academia Europaea Member (2015); AAAS Fellow (2016); IFIP Fellow (2019); Guggenheim Fellow (2024);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer science, Computer security, Privacy
Workplaces	University of California, Irvine; IBM Zurich Research Laboratory; Information Sciences Institute
Thesis	(1991)
Doctoral advisor	Deborah Estrin
Doctoral students	https://ics.uci.edu/~gtsudik/students.html
Website	ics.uci.edu/~gts

Gene Tsudik is a Distinguished and "ICS Alumni" Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).

He obtained his PhD in computer science from USC in 1991. His PhD advisor was Deborah Estrin (he was her first PhD student).

Gene Tsudik was a researcher at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory (1991–1996) and the Information Sciences Institute (1996–2000). Tsudik is a Fulbright scholar, Fulbright specialist (thrice), a fellow of ACM, IEEE, AAAS and IFIP, and a foreign member of Academia Europaea. From 2009 to 2015 he served as editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS). He received the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contribution Award, the 2020 IFIP Jean-Claude Laprie Award, and the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award. He was awarded a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship (the only one in Computer Science), and, in 2026, he received a Humboldt Research Award.

Honors

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013^[1] for contributions to distributed systems security and privacy
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2014^[2] for contributions to Internet security and privacy
Foreign Member of Academia Europaea (AE) in 2015^[3] for contributions to Internet security and privacy
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2016^[4] for contributions to security and privacy of the Internet
Fellow of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) in 2019^[5] for contributions to security and privacy of the Internet
Guggenheim Fellow in 2024 Project Title: Staving Off the IoT Armageddon
Humboldt Research Award in 2026^[6]

References

↑ "2013 elevated fellow" (PDF). IEEE Fellows Directory. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 24, 2012.
↑ "2014 ACM Fellows". ACM Fellows Directory. Archived from the original on 2017-09-23. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
↑ "2015 Academia Europaea Members". Academia Europaea Members.
↑ "2016 AAAS Elected Fellows". AAAS Fellows.
↑ "IFIP Fellows Announced". IFIP. 27 March 2020.
↑ "2026 Humboldt Award Recipients". Humboldt Network.

External links

Home Page: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~gts
Patents: https://patents.google.com/?inventor=Gene+Tsudik

[1] "2013 elevated fellow" (PDF). IEEE Fellows Directory. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 24, 2012.

[2] "2014 ACM Fellows". ACM Fellows Directory. Archived from the original on 2017-09-23. Retrieved 2017-04-16.

[3] "2015 Academia Europaea Members". Academia Europaea Members.

[4] "2016 AAAS Elected Fellows". AAAS Fellows.

[5] "IFIP Fellows Announced". IFIP. 27 March 2020.

[6] "2026 Humboldt Award Recipients". Humboldt Network.

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