Andreas Veneris

Professor Andreas Veneris is a Connaught Scholar and Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, cross-appointed with Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1998. He was a joint faculty at the Athens University of Economics and Business (2006-16) and at the University of Tokyo (2010-11). His research in blockchain focuses on mechanism/ system design, formal methods, IoT, techno-legal questions, and crypto-economics. He has published more than 140 papers, received a 10-year Best Paper Retrospective Award, and other best paper awards and patents. He was a member of the team in the first webcast ever (37th Grammy Awards, 1995), an event acknowledged by the American Congress.

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.

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