About
Lars Eggert is a Senior Principal Software Engineerfor networking, security and privacyatMozilla, and a past chair of the Internet Engineering TaskForce (IETF).
Lars is an experienced technology leader with deep expertise in distributedsystems, network architectures and protocol design, ranging from the Internetto datacenter to IoT/edge environments.
Lars has been leading Internet standardization for two decades, having servedasIETF chair, member of theIETF’s steering group and architecture board,as a director on the board of theIETF Administration LLC,as chair of theIETF’s research arm, theIRTF,and theIETF’s QUIC working group. He also serves on the program andorganization committees of academic conferences such asACM SIGCOMM andUSENIXNSDI, as well as numerous other boards.
Lars received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of SouthernCalifornia (USC) in 2003.Before joiningMozilla in 2023, he was a Distinguished Engineer atNetApp, a Principal Scientist atNokia andservedNokia’s CTO and CEO Technology Councils. In parallel,from 2009-2014, Lars was an Adjunct Professor atAalto University. From2003-2006, he was a senior researcher atNEC Labs.