• 26Oct
  14:00 26th October 2018 ( Michaelmas Term 2018 )

  Tony Hoare Room, Robert Hooke Building

Speaker bio

Ranjan Pal is a visiting researcher in the department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge, hosted by Prof. Jon Crowcroft. Prior to this, he was a Research Scientist at the University of Southern California (USC), where he was affiliated with both the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments. His primary research interests lie in the applications of data science, economics, game theory, algorithmics, and decision science to problems in cyber-security, privacy, blockchains, and resource management in distributed systems. Ranjan received his PhD in Computer Science from USC in 2014, and was the recipient of the Provost Fellowship throughout his PhD studies. During his graduate studies, Ranjan held research scholar positions at Princeton University, Deutsch Telekom Research Laboratories (T-Labs) Berlin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, National University of Singapore, University of California, and Aalborg University. His research on cyber-insurance (the first ever Ph.D on cyber-insurance for inter-networked systems) to improve cyber-security has appeared in the USC News. Ranjan has also consulted for various companies on cyber-insurance, and is currently a technical advisor to QxBranch He has an H-index of 13, and is a member of the IEEE, ACM, American Mathematical Society (AMS), and the Game Theory Society.