# George Danezis

> George Danezis is a computer scientist, UCL professor and co-founder and chief scientist of Mysten Labs. His work connects anonymous communications, security engineering and distributed systems with the design of Sui and Walrus.

- **Role:** Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Mysten Labs
- **Organizations:** Mysten Labs, University College London, Chainspace, Meta (Novi/Libra/Diem), Microsoft Research, KU Leuven, Alan Turing Institute
- **Nationality:** Greek and French
- **Education:** BA in Computer Science, University of Cambridge, PhD in Computer Science, thesis Better Anonymous Communications, University of Cambridge
- **Known for:** Co-founded Mysten Labs and serves as its chief scientist., Co-founded Chainspace, whose team was acquired by Facebook., Co-authored research behind Sui Lutris and Mysticeti.

## Career timeline

- **2004** — Completed a Cambridge PhD on anonymous communications, supervised by Ross Anderson.
- **2005** — Co-authored research with Steven Murdoch on traffic analysis of Tor.
- **2013** — Joined UCL, where he later became Professor of Security and Privacy Engineering.
- **2017** — Delivered a UCL inaugural lecture on anonymous communications.
- **2018** — Co-founded Chainspace, a sharded smart-contract platform.
- **2019** — Joined Facebook after its acquisition of the Chainspace team and worked on Libra/Diem.
- **2021** — Co-founded Mysten Labs.
- **2023** — Co-authored Sui Lutris and Mysticeti research; Sui mainnet launched.
- **2025** — Co-authored a Walrus decentralized-storage research paper.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Mysten Labs and serves as its chief scientist.
- Co-founded Chainspace, whose team was acquired by Facebook.
- Co-authored research behind Sui Lutris and Mysticeti.
- Co-authored the 2025 Walrus decentralized-storage paper.
- Fellow of the British Computer Society.

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — Co-authored Walrus: An Efficient Decentralized Storage Network.
- **2024-08** — Discussed Mysticeti’s rollout on Sui mainnet in a Sui Foundation video.

## Links

- Website: https://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/G.Danezis/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gdanezis/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/gdanezis
- GitHub: https://github.com/gdanezis

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