Alexander Sprintson

Alex Sprintson is a professor and chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University, where he conducts research on security and privacy, network coding, and distributed storage systems. Sprintson is a Fellow of IEEE. His recognitions include the TAMU College of Engineering Outstanding Contribution Award and the NSF CAREER award. From 2013 – 2019, he served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He has been a member of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE Infocom 2006-2023 and was a Technical Program Committee co-chair in 2024. From August 2005 – August 2025, he was a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. From 2018 – 2022, he served as a rotating program director at the US National Science Foundation (NSF), leading the Resilient and Intelligent NextG Systems (RINGS) and Reliable and Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) programs. From October 2022 – December 2023, Sprintson served as the Network Security Principal at Nokia - Bell Labs, leading a research team focused on post-quantum cryptography and crypto-agility.

Degrees

• BS, Mechanical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

• BS, Computer Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

• MS, Electrical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

• PhD, Electrical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology