Dmitri Krioukov graduated from the St. Petersburg State University with Diploma in Physics in 1993. In 1998 he received his Ph.D. in Physics from Old Dominion University, and started working in the networking industry with Dimension Enterprizes. Upon their acquisition in 2002 by Nortel Networks, he accepted a research scientist position at Nortel. In 2004 he moved back to academia, and since then he is a senior research scientist at the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) at UCSD.