Yuval Shavitt

Professor of Electrical Engineering at Tel Aviv University. Before joining Tel Aviv University, he worked for four years at the Networking Center of Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ. Has published seminal papers in the fields of network science, caching, routing, IP hijack attacks, traffic classification and network measurements. He appears on the Stanford top 2% scientists list.

In 2004 he started the DIMES project for mapping the Internet infrastructure using thousands of lightweight software agents, which revolutionized the field of Internet measurement and mapping. Data gathered by DIMES was used by academians worldwide. In 2014 he established BGProtect, a company that uses the DIMES approach to protect nations and large organizations against IP hijack attacks and provide network infrastructure threat intelligence.

In the recent years he studies usage of Deep Learning for solving networking problems with emphasis on network security. His research concentrate at two topics: traffic classification, and routing attack identification.