George Danezis (born 6 December 1979)[3] is a computer scientist and Professor of Security and Privacy Engineering at the Department of Computer Science, University College London where he is part of the Information Security Research Group,[4][5] and a fellow at the Alan Turing Institute.

[1][6][7] He co-founded Chainspace, a sharded smart contract platform,[8][9][4] and was Head of Research before it was acquired by Facebook.

[11] He currently works part-time as a Professor at University College London and as Chief Scientist at MystenLabs.

He has contributed to the design of anonymity networks including Hornet[15][16][17] and Loopix,[18] as well as the Sphinx packet format.

[4][10] Danezis was recognised as a Fellow of the British Computer Society in 2014,[1] an award given to those who "demonstrate a commitment to advancing standards; strategic leadership and best practice, and encourage this in others".