Paul Syverson

Paul Syverson is a computer scientist best known for inventing onion routing, a feature of the Tor anonymity network.^[1][2]

Paul Syverson
Nationality	American
Known for	Invention of onion routing
Academic background
Alma mater	Indiana University
Academic work
Discipline	Mathematics
Institutions	Center for High Assurance Computer Systems, US Naval Research Laboratory
Main interests	Traffic-secure communications

In 2012, Foreign Policy magazine named Syverson, and Tor's co-creators Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson, among its Top 100 Global Thinkers "for making the web safe for whistleblowers".^[3]

In 2014, Syverson was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.^[4][5]