Professor of Security and Privacy, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge

Frank Stajano is a Full Professor of Security and Privacy at the Department of Computer Science and Technology of the University of Cambridge, where he originally obtained his PhD, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the founder and CEO of Cambridge Cyber Ltd, a security consultancy offering penetration testing, strategic advice and training to industry, government and academia. At Cambridge, he currently teaches an undergraduate course on cybersecurity and a graduate course on digital money and decentralised finance. Over the past 25+ years at this University he taught a variety of other courses spanning the whole spectrum from assembly language, hardware design and computer architecture to digital communications and algorithms. He loves explaining complex ideas and helping others reach a "lightbulb" moment. A published author and a popular public speaker, he has given invited talks in four continents. He is fluent in three languages. In 2015 he founded the annual C2C-CTF competition with MIT, still ongoing, to raise a new generation of cyber defenders. His current research focuses on the financial infrastructure for the digital society. He is also a keen 5th dan practitioner and licensed instructor of kendo (Japanese swordsmanship) and has served as the dojo leader at Cambridge for over two decades.