Prof. Dr. Srdjan Capkun

Personal page: external pagehttps://www.srdjan-capkun.com/call_made

Short bio

Srdjan Capkun (Srđan Čapkun) is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich and Director of the Zurich Information Security and Privacy Center (ZISC). Originally from Split, Croatia, he received his Dipl.Ing. Degree in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science from the external pageUniversity of Splitcall_made in 1998, and his Ph.D. degree in Communication Systems from external pageEPFLcall_made in 2004. His research interests are in system and network security. His focus areas are wireless security (in particular secure positioning), and system security where he focuses on trusted computing and blockchain technologies. He is a co-founder of external page3db Accesscall_made, which focuses on secure distance measuement and proximity-based access control, and of external pageFuturaecall_made, a company focusing on usable on-line authentication. In 2016 he received an ERC Consolidator Grant for a project on securing positioning in wireless networks. He is a fellow of the ACM. 

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