Technology and Innovation

Qasim Lone

I am a research engineer in the R&D department at RIPE NCC. I am interested in internet measurements, internet outages, data analysis, and cybersecurity. Prior to joining RIPE NCC, I defended my Ph.D. in cyber-security at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands.

Petros Gigis

Based in London

Petros Gigis is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University College London.

Pavlos Sermpezis

Pavlos Sermpezis is a researcher at Datalab (datalab.csd.auth.gr), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. His research is mainly on data science, Internet routing and measurements.

Sankalp Basavaraj

Based in Bengaluru, India

Sankalp Basavaraj is a Senior Architect in Akamai Technologies Inc. and has worked with 300+ customers worldwide. His expertise spans across multiple tech arenas such as web performance, analytics, enterprise security and network engineering. Before Akamai, he worked as a network engineer with AT&T client and helped in designing & testing of LTE, 5G architectures. When he is not busy solving the problems of Internet, you can find him dabbling with the stock markets.

Corinne Cath

Dr. Corinne Cath is the Vice President of Research at the Open Technology Fund (OTF), an independent organization dedicated to supporting Internet Freedom. She is an anthropologist of technology development and holds a PhD from the University of Oxford.

Nadia Tjahja

Based in Belgium

Nadia Tjahja is a PhD Fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), working on the project “The contribution of global and regional multistakeholder mechanisms in improving global governance (GREMLIN)”, specifically her work looks at the legitimacy of multistakeholderism in Internet Governance.