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World-leaders in Cryptography: Daniele Micciancio Nov 21, 2025

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Daniele is a professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of California, San Diego and, in 2019, he was elected as a Fellow of the IACR. His main focus is on the foundations of lattice-based cryptography and its advanced applications, including fully homomorphic encryption. Overall, he has published many classic papers that relate to lattice methods, including working with Chris Peikert on "Trapdoors for lattices", and with Oded Regev on the "Worst-case to average-case reductions based on Gaussian methods". Daniele has also contributed greatly to the advancement of bootstrapping methods, including defining the DM/FHEW method - along with Leo Ducas.

He published a book on the "Complexity of Lattice Problems - A cryptographic perspective" with Shafi Goldwasser, and his paper on "Generalized Compact Knapsacks, Cyclic Lattices, and Efficient One-Way Functions" was given a FOCS 20 years test of time award in 2022. This paper led to the theoretical foundation of efficient lattice based cryptography. His paper with Regev also received the FOCS ToT award in 2024.

World-leaders in Cryptography: Gene Tsudik Nov 14, 2025

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Gene is a Distinguished and ICS Alumni Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) where he has been since 2000. His research covers areas of security, privacy, and cryptography. From 1991 to 1996, he was a researcher at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory and then at the Information Science Institute until 2000. He is a Fulbright scholar and a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, AAAS, and IFIP. From 2009 to 2015, he was the editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS). Over the years, Gene has received a number of awards, including the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contribution Award, the 2020 IFIP Jean-Claude Laprie Award, the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award, and a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=WLvuu74AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

World-leaders in Technology: Vint Cerf Oct 03, 2025

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Vint is seen as one of the founding fathers of the Internet, and along with Robert Kahn, was award the ACM AM Turing Prize - the Nobel Prize of Computer Science - in 2004. Vint contributed to many areas in the creation of the Internet, including writing many RFCs (Requests For Comment) drafts, and in 1974 published the classic paper of "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication" in the IEEE Transactions on Communications. This paper basically defined the IP and TCP protocols that would eventually be used to build the Internet.

Along with the A.M. Turing Award, he received the National Medal of Technology from President Clinton in 1997, the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W Bush, and the Marconi Prize. Vint has Honorary Doctorates from over 27 universities, including ETHZ in Zurich, Yale University and the University of St Andrews. In 2012, he was induced into the Internet Hall of Fame, and, in 2023, he received the IEEE Medal of Honor for co-creating the Internet, and in sustained leadership in the creation of the Internet as critical infrastructure.

Panel Discussion: The Quantum clock countdown to Y2Q Sep 24, 2025

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Panel Discussion: The Quantum clock countdown to Y2Q

Peter Ferry, CEO Scottish Centre of Excellence in Digital Trust and DLT

Amit Gupta, Founder and CEO ACubed.IT

Mark Tehrani, Founder CyberSeQ

Jan Willemson , Senior Researcher Cybernetica Estonia

Post Quantum Cryptography and Other Crypto with Daniel J Bernstein Sep 24, 2025

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A chat in the International Conference on PQC and AI. Daniel is a world-renowned computer scientist, one of the most influential figures in modern cryptography and a pioneer in post-quantum security.https://luma.com/9lxiupu6https://luma.com/9lxiupu6https://luma.com/9lxiupu6

Cryptography Experts: Professor Martin Albrecht Aug 26, 2025

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Martin Albrecht is a Professor of Cryptography at King's College London and a Principal Research Scientist at SandboxAQ. He works broadly across the field of cryptography. His work focuses on the analysis of deployed or soon-to-be deployed cryptographic solutions and he has responsibly disclosed severe vulnerabilities to various public and private stakeholders such as OpenSSH, Amazon EC2, Apple, Telegram, Jitsi and Matrix. He further works on designing advanced cryptographic solutions. He is well known for analysing the security of lattice-based cryptography against classical and quantum computers.

World-leaders in Cryptography: Gilles Brassard Aug 13, 2025

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Gilles has been a full Professor at the Université de Montréal for more than 45 years. He laid the foundations of quantum cryptography at a time when no one could have predicted that the quantum information revolution would usher in a multi-billion-dollar industry, much less that the United Nations would proclaim 2025 to be the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.

He is also among the inventors of quantum teleportation, which is one of the most fundamental pillars of the theory of quantum information. In addition to this, his research focuses on areas of classical cryptography, privacy amplification, quantum entanglement distillation, quantum pseudo-telepathy, the classical simulation of quantum entanglement, amplitude amplification and he discovered the first lower bound on the power of quantum computers. Currently, his main interest lies in the foundations of quantum theory.

In 1996, he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada. In 2000, he won the Prix Marie-Victorin - the highest scientific award of the government of Quebec - and in 2006, he was elected as a Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research. In 2009, Gille was awarded the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, and in 2011 the Killam Prize in Natural Sciences, which are Canada's highest scientific honours.

In 2013, Gilles was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. He was named as an Officer in the Order of Canada in 2013 and in the Ordre national du Québec in 2017. In 2018, he became the first Canadian to receive the Wolf Prize in Physics, which is considered second only to the Nobel Prize for Physics. In 2019, he received the Micius Quantum Prize and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences. In 2023, he was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics - the world's largest science prize. Furthermore, he has been granted honorary doctorates including from ETH Zürich, and the University of Ottawa.

World-leaders in Cryptography: Christof Paar Aug 04, 2025

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Christof is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy in Bochum, Germany. He is also, a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and a Fellow of the IACR and IEEE. His research includes areas of light-weight cryptography, efficient cryptographic implementations, cryptographic Trojans and physical layer security. Christof is one of the co-creators of the PRESENT light-weight cipher and of the PRINCE block cipher, In 2003, he founded Escrypt GmbH together with Willi Mann-heims, and which was one of the first companies to focus on industrial data security. Since 2012, Escrypt has been part of Bosch.

Blockchain in Scotland Jul 30, 2025

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World-leaders in Cryptography: Victor S Miller Jul 10, 2025

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Victor is a Senior Research Scientist at Nexus Laboratories. He received his PhD in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1975, and was an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston from 1973 to 1978. Victor has since worked for the IBM Research Center, The Institute for Defence Analyses in Princeton, Meta Platforms and SRI International. For his research, Victor has focused on areas of computational number theory, data compression and cryptography. Along with Neal Koblitz, he was the co-creator of Elliptic Curve Cryptography, the inventor of Miller's algorithm and was a co-inventor of the LZW data compression method. For the LZW invention, he was awarded the IEEE Millennium medal, and for his work on elliptic curve cryptography, he received the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics the Levchin Prize, and the Eduard Rhein Foundation Technology Award, along with being a member of the Information Systems Security Association Hall of Fame.

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