Diogo Barradas wins FOCI Rising Star Award

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Professor Diogo Barradas has received the 2025 FOCI Rising Star Award for his significant contributions to censorship-resistant communications. Presented at the Free and Open Communications on the Internet conference, the FOCI Rising Star Award honours early-career researchers whose work advances Internet freedom.

“I am pleased to hear that Diogo has won a FOCI Rising Star Award,” said Raouf Boutaba, University Professor and Director of the Cheriton School of Computer Science. “His research not only develops new censorship-resistant systems, but it also demonstrates how difficult these systems are to detect by censors, complementary work that’s essential to help maintain a free and open Internet.”

Read the full story from Computer Science to learn more.