Dr. Jakobsson received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at San Diego in 1997, with a specialization in cryptography, and a thesis on privacy and e-commerce. He held a joint appointment at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and General Atomics during 1996 and 1997, and joined Bell Laboratories as a member of the technical staff in 1997. He held the position of principal research scientist at RSA Laboratories between 2001 and 2004, and adjunct associate professor at New York University between 2002 and 2003. He is the inventor or co-inventor of over fifty U.S. patents; is the vice president of the International Financial Cryptography Association; and is pursuing research relating to cybersecurity and cryptographic protocols.
Among other topics, he is interested in cryptographic techniques suitable for use in low-power wireless environments; privacy issues, in particular as they relate to payments, voting, web browsing and routing; payment schemes, and the use of economic mechanisms as incentives for collaboration; phishing and spam, and ways of defending against such abuses, and techniques for making electronic commerce in general secure and reliable.
