Dr. Thomas Maillart

ETH Zürich
Dr. Thomas Maillart
Entrepreneurial Risks
KPL F 18
Kreuzplatz 5
8032 Zürich
Switzerland

Phone: +41 44 632 82 40
Fax: +41 44 632 19 14
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Latest News

16/07/10: Just a refreshment freebeer

19/03/09: Time for a Data Diet? A Knowledge@wharton article

04/12/08: Our Linux Evolution Paper highlighted in Nature (pdf)

01/12/08 : Our Linux Evolution Paper featured on www.digg.com

 

 

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958)

Academic Experience

2011 - present, Post Doctoral Fellow @ Professorship for Law, Economics & Intellectual Property

2008 - 2011, Member of the Executive Committee, ETH Competence Center for "Coping with Crises in Socio-Economic Systems"

2007 - 2011, Researcher and PhD Candidate at Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2003 - 2004, Visiting Scholar at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

1999 - 2005, Master of Science in Civil Engineering, EPFL, Switzerland

Teaching

2008, Teaching Assistant for the Course: Entrepreneurial Risks , ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2006 - 2008, Lecturer for the Master Course: Information Risk and Economic Consequences, University of Bordeaux IV, France

2001-2002, Assistant for the Course: Fluid Mechanics, EPFL, Switzerland

Semester/Master Students Supervision

2009, Thomas Frendo and Sebastián Pérez Saaibi, Factors of Success and Failure in Open Source Projects

2008, Jonathan Gysel, Analysis and Modeling of Internet Epidemics (with ETHZ Communication System Group)

2008, Tonio Gsell, Evaluating and Improving Traffic Anomaly Detection Tools (with ETHZ Communication System Group)

open positions: (Currently 1 Master Project)

Professional Experience

2008 - present, Founding Member of AISAW Association, focusing on IT Governance and Risk Management, thinking corporate security in a broader sense than a pure technology perspective

2006-2008, Co-Founder and Manager, IRIS Internet Risk Insurance Services S.A., Geneva, Switzerland
IRIS delivers a low-cost packaged solution, active monitoring + insurance, to information security sensitive SMB's (wealth management, high tech companies).
In October 2006, the company was granted the official support from the Swiss Innovation Promotion Agency CTI Start-up.

2005-2006, Project Manager, ilion Security S.A., Geneva, Switzerland

Publications / Conferences

Scientific Articles

2011, T. Maillart, D. Sornette, S. Frei, T. Duebendorfer and A. Saichev, Quantification of Deviations from Rationality with Heavy-tails in Human Dynamics, Physical Review E, 82, 056101. (Supplementary Material)

2010, T. Maillart and D. Sornette, Heavy-Tailed Distribution of Cyber-Risks, Eur. Phys. J. B 75, 357-364

2009, B. Tellenbach, M. Burkhart, T. Maillart and D. Sornette, Beyond Shannon: Characterizing Internet Traffic with Generalized Entropy Metrics, Passive and Active Measurement (PAM) Conference.

2008, T. Maillart, D. Sornette, S. Speath and G. Von Krogh, Empirical Tests of Zipf's law Mechanism In Open Source Linux Distribution, Physical Review Letters

Conferences / Seminars

2010, ESF-COST High-Level Research Conference , Future Internet and Society: A Complex Systems Perspective, Napoli, Italy.
T. Maillart & D. Sornette, The Dynamics of Success and Fame: YouTube, Open Source Software, Social Networks, Cyber-Risks.

2010, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Center for Nonlinear Studies (Theoritical Division), Los Alamos, USA.

(1) T. Maillart, T. Frendo, D. Sornette, G. von Krogh, Colliding Cascades in OSS Development - The Virus of Open Source

(2) T. Maillart, D. Sornette, An Immune System-like Model of Cyber-Risks at the Internet Scale

2010, Conference Knowledge in Organisations (KIO), Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland
T. Maillart, T. Frendo, D. Sornette, G. von Krogh, Colliding Cascades in OSS Development - The Virus of Open Source

2009, Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA
T. Maillart, D. Sornette, Complex Architectures, Social Interactions and Uncertainty on the Internet

2009, International Workshop on Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems, Zurich, Switzerland
T. Maillart, D. Sornette, Multi-Scale Approach to Decipher and Understand Cyber-Risk

2008, ISIS Conference on Information Risk, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland
T. Maillart, D. Sornette, The Heavy-Tailed Distribution of Cyber-Risk, From Potential Threats to Measurables Damages

2008, Lighthill Risk Network, London, United Kingdom
T. Maillart, D. Sornette, Evaluating Cyber-Risk

2008, Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation, D-MTEC, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
T.Maillart, D.Sornette, S. Speath, G. Von Krogh, Empirical Tests of Zipf's law Mechanism In Open Source Linux Distribution

Newspaper Articles

2008, D. Whitacker, S. Cartwright & T. Maillart, Essential Criteria for the Creation of Reliable Cyber Insurance, published in Catastrophe Risk Management (sep. 2008)

Links

Identity Thefts Database, http://datalossdb.org/
Lighthill Risk Network, http://www.lighthillrisknetwork.org/