Prof. Dr. Gene Tsudik

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsSecurity and Dependability, Operating, Communication and Distributed Systems
KeywordsEmbedded Systems, Applied Cryptography, Privacy, Internet, Security
Honours and awards

2026: Special Recognition Award, Fulbright Association

2025: Guggenheim Fellowship

2023: Outstanding Innovation Award, ACM SIGSAC (Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control)

2020: IFIP Jean-Claude Laprie Award in Dependable Computing

2019: Distinguished Professor, UC Irvine

2019: IFIP Fellow, "For Contributions to Internet Security and Privacy"

2017: Outstanding Contributions Award, ACM SIGSAC (Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control)

2017: TUV Sud Foundation Visiting Professorship, TU Dresden

2016: AAAS Fellow, "For Contributions to Internet Security and Privacy"

2016: Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Padova

2015: Foreign Member of Academia Europea, Informatics Section

2014: ACM Fellow, "For Contributions to Internet Security and Privacy"

2013: Astor Visiting Fellow, Oxford University

2013: Chancellor's Professor, UC Irvine

2013: IEEE Fellow, Communications Society

2009: Cor Wit Visiting Chair, TU Delft

2007: Fulbright Senior Lecturer/Researcher, University of Rome, "La Sapienza"

1996: IBM 2nd Plateau Invention Achievement Award

1994: IBM Outstanding Innovation Award

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityIrvine
InstitutionUniversity of California, Irvine
InstituteDepartment of Information & Computer Science
Homepagewww.ics.uci.edu/~gts

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ahmad-Reza SadeghiFachbereich Informatik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2026

Programme(s)

2025Humboldt Research Award Programme (Global Minds Initiative Germany)

Nominator's project description

Professor Tsudik is internationally renowned for his outstanding research in cybersecurity, privacy, and applied cryptography. He has made seminal contributions to information security by combining rigorous theoretical foundations with practical, system-level approaches. During his stay in Germany, Professor Tsudik intends to further advance collaborative research on fundamental and emerging security challenges.