George Azzopardi
George Azzopardi is tenure track assistant professor of computer science at the Information Systems group, Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen.
His research interests include the application of data science for the detection of illicit activity on blockchains, as well as the integrity protection of the chain of digital custody in forensics, an ongoing research line which is financed by a grant from the Gratama foundation. Moreover, he was leader of a work package in the recently completed EU-funded 4NSEEK project, which concerned the development of forensic image analysis tools to help in the investigations against child sexual exploitation.
He is associate editor of two Elsevier computer science journals and has (co-)authored more than 70 peer-reviewed papers. He has co-promoted 4 PhD candidates and is the co-promoter of another 4 ongoing PhD students. More information can be found in his personal website: www.cs.rug.nl/~george