Professor Kavé Salamatian is European Chair in Maritime Cybersecurity at Taltech, Estonia. His main research areas are cybersecurity, Internet measurement and modeling, network security, and networking information theory.
Kavé graduated from Paris SUD-Orsay University in 1998, where he worked on joint source-channel coding applied to multimedia transmission over the Internet for his Ph.D. Before that, he graduated with an MBA, worked as a risk analyst, and enjoyed being an urban traffic modeler for some years.
Kavé is currently a distinguished visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Science. In the past decade, he has been developing research activity at the frontier between geopolitics and computer science, as well as working on cyber-strategy and cyber-geography.
Professor Salamatian has published more than 170 papers.