Dr. Stefan Savage, Participant

Stefan Savage is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington and a B.S. in Applied History from Carnegie Mellon University. He currently serves as the co-director for UCSD's Center for Network Systems (CNS). Savage is known for his work on network security and reliability, on cybercrime economics and defense, and on the empirical measurement of cybersecurity and cyberinfrastructure. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a MacArthur Fellow, an ACM Fellow, and is the recipient of ACM's Prize in Computing and AAAS' Golden Goose award. He currently holds the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Chair in Information and Computer Science, but is a fairly down-to-earth guy and only writes about himself in the third person when asked.