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Petros Gigis

Based in London, United Kingdom

Petros Gigis is a final-year PhD student in Computer Science at University College London. His research interests include computer networks, Internet routing, and Internet measurements.

Dirk Doesburg

Based in Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Studied cyber security at Radboud University, and did a MSc thesis at SIDN Labs about PQC for the RPKI.

Maria Farrell

A graduate of University College Dublin, the Dublin Institute of Technology and the London School of Economics, Maria Farrell has worked in technology policy for over twenty years, including at The World Bank, ICANN, the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, the Confederation of British Industry and The Law Society of England and Wales. She has written for The Guardian, Conversationalist, New European, Slate, Medium, the Irish Times and Irish Independent, and appeared as a tech expert on BBC, Sky News, NBC and TRT. Maria’s viral 2024 article "We need to rewild the internet", written with public interest technologist Robin Berjon, has been translated into three languages and was selected for the French magazine Philosophie's special edition of key ideas for 2025. It will be published in the 2025 anthology, "Best American Science and Nature Writing". Maria is now working on a full-length book titled "Rewild the Internet: This is How We Resist Big Tech".

Romain Bosc

Based in Brussels

Romain Bosc is a Senior Public Policy and Governance Officer at the RIPE NCC. Based in Brussels, he engages with a broad range of stakeholders including the RIPE NCC membership, EU institutions and bodies, national authorities, civil society organisations and academia. Romain joined the RIPE NCC in September 2023. Before this, he held various positions in European public affairs and policy research. His background is in political science and international relations, and he speaks French and English.

Guillermo Pereyra

Based in Uruguay

Guillermo Pereyra is currently security analyst at LACNIC CSIRT, the team responsible for the coordination functions needed to strengthen response capabilities in case of incidents involving Internet resources in Latin America and the Caribbean. He has six years of experience working on security incident response at the national Uruguayan ISP.

Soroush Rafiee Rad

Based in United Kingdom

Soroush Rafiee Rad is a researcher in information dynamic, complex systems analysis and probabilistic modelling currently affiliated with University of St Andrews. Before joining St Andrews he held research positions at University of Milan, Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena, University of Amsterdam and Bayreuth University. Soroush's research is focused on understanding how information in networks are updated and propagated.

Anna Maria Mandalari

Based in London

Anna Maria Mandalari works as Assistant Professor at University College London (UCL). She is affiliated with the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department, where she is the Director of the SafeNetIoT laboratory and the Director of the Internet Engineering/Telecommunications MSc/MRes Programme. She is Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Security Science and Technology at Imperial College London, Visiting Assistant Professor at Yokohama National University. She is CTO at Mulini SRL. She is Executive Steering Board Member of the IoT Security Foundation. She has been nominated Member of the Italian Technical Secretariat of the Committee for strategies on the use of AI. Her research interests are Internet of Things (IoT), privacy, security, networking and Internet measurement techniques. She studies privacy implications and information exposure from IoT devices. She works on the problem of modelling, designing, and evaluating adaptation strategies based on Internet measurements techniques. In addition to her research, Anna gives invited talks all around the world to promote research and create awareness on security, privacy, and ethical AI. Anna Maria Mandalari is also committed to promoting the interest of young women in STEM subjects. She is an active member of organizations that encourage diversity and aims to promote connections between women in the computer science and networking field.

Henrry Villeta

Based in Massachussets

Senior Network Engineer at NETSCOUT Systems, Inc., with over six years of hands-on experience in designing, deploying, and supporting complex network infrastructures across enterprise, data center, and public cloud environments. I have a degree in Telematics Engineering—a discipline that integrates networking, computing Science, and telecommunications—and a Master’s in Project Management, providing a structured approach to delivering scalable and resilient network solutions. I am passionate with data center fabrics, hybrid cloud Networks , and global hyper scale networks and backbones, i want to learn and understand how the industry big players have come to evolve the networks to what they are today and i want to see, be part of and contribute to the future of it, even if is with grain of sand. I hold some industry certifications that span from AWS, Cisco, Extreme Networks and others, but i've have been exposed and experecien much more than the current certifications i've got can infer. My goal is to gain deep insight into how leading organizations engineer global scale connectivity and to actively try to contribute to the advancement of future networks. I'm currently learning and getting more hands on experience in Linux, Ansible, and Python so i can be more close to get into the wagon that has been defining we do networking for the past few years.

Pere Barlet

Based in Barcelona, Spain

I am a Full Professor with UPC BarcelonaTech and Scientific Director at the Barcelona Neural Networking Center (BNN). Between 2013-2018, I was co-founder and chairman at Talaia Networks, an AI-based cybersecurity startup. For this activity I received research valorization awards from both the Catalan Government and UPC, including the Fiber Entrepreneurs award to the best entrepreneur of the Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB). My recent research activity has focused on the development of novel AI-based methods for network management, optimization, monitoring and cybersecurity. These methods have been integrated in several open-source and commercial products, such as Network Polygraph, Auvik Traffic Insights, Intel CoMo and SMARTxAC. My group and I are also considered pioneers in the application of Graph Neural Networks (GNN) in the area of computer networks.

Anastasiya Pak

Based in Amsterdam

Anastasiya Pak is a Senior Marketing and Communications Officer at the RIPE NCC. Before joining the RIPE NCC, Anastasiya led the Communications Department at an international education NGO. She began her career as a TV journalist in Uzbekistan, covering international politics and diplomacy, the UN discussions, and other topics related to international political and economic affairs. Anastasiya holds a Bachelor's Degree in International Relations from the University of World Economy and Diplomacy and a Joint Master's in Journalism, Media, and Globalisation from the University of Amsterdam and Aarhus University.