Christos Tryfonas

I have several years of experience as a computer scientist and architect in both academia and industry research labs, leading innovative projects ranging from storage networking to multimedia networking, network security, information retrieval and analytics. My latest startup Cetas Software was an analytics software company that was acquired by VMware in 2012. Prior to that, I co-founded Kazeon Systems, Inc., a Silicon-Valley startup in the area of large scale information classification, management, and retrieval where I was responsible for the technical leadership, the architecture and design of a complex and distributed software product. Kazeon was acquired by EMC Corporation in September 2009. Prior to co-founding Kazeon Systems, I was a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Sprint Advanced Technology Labs, where I was responsible for research and development in emerging networking technologies, such as Video-on-Demand (responsible for one of the biggest VoD trials in the US in Pacifica, CA), networked multimedia, and remote presence (Project Essistant - http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/05/03/chase.walker.idg/index.html). I have contributed to several innovative Sprint services, and was part of the world-class IP research group at Sprint that provided accurate large-scale Internet measurements for worldwide IP capacity planning and traffic analysis to the Internet community. I have also worked at AT&T; Bell Laboratories doing research and development in the area of congestion control over packet-switched networks.

I hold several patents in the areas of congestion control in packet networks, and network transport of multimedia/video traffic over packet-switched broadband networks, and have several more patents pending in the area of large-scale information classification, management, and retrieval. I have served in technical panels of international conferences on networking and multimedia and have published extensively in conferences and journals of international reputation in the areas of high-speed networking, multimedia networking, and network security.

I hold a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, and an M.S and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Cruz. My current interests lie in the areas of mobile technologies, cloud computing, security,