Vasily Desnitsky graduated from Saint-Petersburg State University and got a Ph.D. at the Saint-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS). At the moment he holds a position of senior researcher at the Laboratory of Computer Security Problems at the Saint-Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS). He is an author of more than 80 publications and participated as a principal investigator in several Russian and EU projects on developing new security technologies. His primary research interests include Internet of Things security, wireless sensor networks, and modeling and detection of attacks in IoT.