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Full Name
  
Ymir Vigfusson

Residence
  
Reykjavik, Iceland


Nationality
  
Icelandic

Name
  
Ymir Vigfusson

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Born
  
January 1984
Reykjavik, Iceland

Alma mater
  
University of Iceland and Cornell University

Occupation
  
Assistant Professor at Emory University, Director of the Emory SysLab, Chief Science Officer of Syndis.

Employer
  
Emory University, Syndis

Known for
  
Syndis, Reykjavik University SysLab

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Ýmir Vigfússon is an Icelandic hacker and a computer security expert. Currently, Ýmir is an assistant professor at Emory University, where he leads the Emory SysLab (System and Security Lab), and a member of ICE-TCS (Icelandic Center of Excellence in Theoretical Computer Science) and of the ALNET Group (Research Group for Algorithms and Networks).

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Biography

In 2008, Ýmir interned at Yahoo! and worked on a novel approach for performing range queries in a scalable fashion on a massive distributed key-value data storage system (PNUTS).

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In 2009, Ýmir earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University.

After defending his Ph.D., from 2009 to 2011, Ýmir worked together with Gregory Chockler and Eliezer Dekel at IBM Research in Haifa.

In 2011, Ýmir became an assistant professor at Reykjavík University, where he was the principal investigator and director of the SysLab (System and Security Lab) and the co-founder the Center of Research in Engineering Software System (CRESS). Furthermore, he taught an elective, intensive Computer Security course in three weeks. The course is closed to only the best 20 students of Reykjavik University (according to their GPA and to an entrance test).

In 2014, Ýmir became an assistant professor at Emory University.

Ýmir gives technical and non-technical talks about computer security and computer science related topics at conferences and other universities around the world.

In 2013, Ýmir co-founded the computer security company Syndis in Reykjavík. The company performs research and development on offensive security technologies, consulting, penetration testing and security software development.

References

Ýmir Vigfússon Wikipedia