Serge Plotkin - Short Bio

Serge Plotkin is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University.
He obtained his BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering from Ben Gurion University, Israel
and  Phd in Computer Science from MIT.

Serge’s interests span theoretical computer science, combinatorial optimization,
networking, distributed computation, and security.

Serge has written more than 100 technical papers in computer science journals and conferences
and was granted numerous patents in United States and abroad.
He served on various program committees and editorial boards, including editorial boards of
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics and Journal of Interconnection Networks.

Serge has served as a Vice Chair of IEEE  Security in Storage Workgroup (P1619/P1619.1/P1619.2 workgroups) 
since its inception in 2003  and is the technical editor of the IEEE1619 standard.
Serge is also a venture partner at Opus Capital, a venture capital fund that
focuses on investments in early-stage technology companies.

In 2001 Serge co-founded Decru and served as CTO and VP Engineering.
Decru became the leader in the emerging field of security for data-at-rest and
was acquired by Network Appliance in 2005.