Loukas Lazos

Biography

Loukas Lazos received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, in 2006. He is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering with the University of Arizona. In 2007, he was the co-director of the Network Security Lab, University of Washington. His main research interests include the areas of wireless security, user privacy, wireless communications, cloud security, and network visualization. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2009), for his research in security of multi-channel wireless networks. He currently serves on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security and the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He was the general co-chair for the ACM WiSec 2012 Conference and served as the TPC co-chair for the Communication and Information System Security Symposium at GLOBECOM 2013 and the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Data Security and Privacy in Wireless Networks (DSPAN) 2013. He has served on several organizing and technical program committees of international conferences and on panels for several funding agencies.

Degrees

• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering
• University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
• Securing Network Services for Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
• M.S. Electrical Engineering
• University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
• B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering
• National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
• DECT Radio Coverage of the Athens Olympic Stadium

Awards

• 2nd Place Best Graduate Student Paper Award
• IEEE/AIAA Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Spring 2015