Gene Tsudik

Gene Tsudik is a Distinguished 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. Before coming to UCI in 2000, he was at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory (1991-1996) and USC/ISI (1996-2000). His research interests included many topics in security and applied cryptography. Gene Tsudik is a Fulbright Scholar, Fulbright Specialist (thrice), a fellow of ACM, IEEE, AAAS and IFIP as well as a foreign member of Academia Europaea. From 2009 to 2015 he served as Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Information and Systems Security (TISSEC), which was renamed in 2016 to ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS): http://tops.acm.org

Gene Tsudik was named:

• 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;