Divesh Aggarwal, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Divesh Aggarwal has received Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from ETH Zurich in 2012. From 2012 to 2016, he spent two years each as a postdoctoral researcher at New York University and at EPFL. Since 2016, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, and a Principal Investigator in the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore. His research interests include lattices, pseudorandomness, cryptography, coding theory, algorithms, and computational complexity.
Sherman Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Henri Cohen, Université Bordeaux I, France
Henri Cohen
Emeritus Professor, Université de Bordeaux,
Equipe LFANT, INRIA, IMB.
Author of five graduate-level textbooks (Springer GTM 138, GTM 193, GTM 239, GTM 240, and AMS GSM 179).
Creator of the Pari/GP software.
Eiichiro Fujisaki, JAIST, Japan
Eiichiro Fujisaki received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1991 and 2005, respectively. He joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) Laboratories in 1991. He mainly engaged in research on cryptography and information security. Since 2017, he has been a Professor in School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST). His research interests include cryptography, network security, and computer-aided proofs. He is a member of IEICE, IPSJ, and IACR.
Pierrick Gaudry, Université de Lorraine, France
Pierrick Gaudry is a CNRS researcher in Nancy, France. After studies at École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, he got a doctoral degree from École polytechnique in 2000 on the topic of curve-based cryptography. His current research interests include elliptic and hyperelliptic curves for cryptography, integer factorization, the discrete logarithm problem in finite fields and electronic voting.
Goichiro Hanaoka, AIST, Japan
Nobuyuki Imoto, Osaka University, Japan
Nobuyuki Imoto received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Tokyo in 1975 and 1977, respectively. Then he joined NTT Basic Research Laboratories, and engaged in research on optical fibre communications and control (reducing the influence) of quantum noises. He received Ph. D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 1990 by the thesis on QND measurement of photon number. He stayed at Rodney Loudon's group one year (1990-1991), where he touched the breath of quantum information. After coming back to NTT-BRL, he started research on quantum information and published several papers on quantum cryptography. Then he moved to The Graduate University for the Advanced Studies in 1999, where he conducted not only theoretical but also experimental research on quantum information science and technology. Then he moved to Osaka University in 2004, where he continued theoretical and experimental research on quantum information. Now, he is Professor Emeritus, Osaka University. He is a member of The Physical Society of Japan, The Japan Society of Applied Physics, and a life member of American Physical Society.
David Jao, University of Waterloo, Canada
Prof. David Jao is a professor in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. He is a member of the Center for Applied Cryptographic Research, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science (cross-appointed).
His research interests are in the areas of number theory and cryptography, with emphasis on elliptic and hyperelliptic curve cryptography. The focus of his recent work is on post-quantum cryptography and isogeny-based cryptography.
Chloe Martindale, Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands
Chloe Martindale is currently a post-doc at the Technical University of Eindhoven. Her current primary research interests are post-quantum isogeny-based cryptography and pairing-based cryptography. She obtained her PhD on the topic of `Isogeny graphs, modular polynomials, and applications' jointly from Leiden University and the University of Bordeaux in June 2018, under the supervision of Dr. Marco Streng. She obtained her masters and bachelor degrees at the University of Oxford, where she wrote her master's thesis under the supervision of Prof. Victor Flynn.
Travis Morrison, University of Waterloo, Canada
Yongsoo Song, University of California San Diego, USA
Yongsoo Song is a postdoctoral researcher of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego. He received his PhD in Mathematical Sciences from Seoul National University. His research interests include cryptographic primitives for secure computation and their applications in machine learning domain. His research interests include cryptography, network security, and computer-aided proofs. He is a member of IEICE, IPSJ, and IACR.
Tsuyoshi Takagi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Katsuyuki Takashima, Mitsubishi Electric, Japan
Katsuyuki Takashima received the B.S., M.S. and PhD degrees from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1993, 1995 and 2009, respectively. He is presently engaged in research on cryptography and information security at Information Technology R&D center, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. He served as vice-president of the JSIAM from June 2016 to June 2018, and is a member of organizing committee of ICIAM 2023, which will be held at Waseda University in August 2023. He was awarded the best paper award of IEICE transactions in 2015 and 2016, and the annual award of JSIAM papers in 2003 and 2016.
Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Roger Wattenhofer is a full professor at the Information Technology and Electrical Engineering Department, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
He received his doctorate in Computer Science from ETH Zurich. He also worked some years at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington,
at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
Roger Wattenhofer's research interests are a variety of algorithmic and systems aspects in computer science and information technology,
e.g., distributed systems, positioning systems, wireless networks, mobile systems, social networks,
deep neural networks. He publishes in different communities: distributed computing
(e.g., PODC, SPAA, DISC), networking and systems (e.g., SIGCOMM, MobiCom, SenSys, OSDI), and algorithmic theory
(e.g., STOC, FOCS, SODA, ICALP). His work received multiple awards, e.g. the Prize for Innovation in Distributed
Computing for his work in Distributed Approximation. He published the book
"Distributed Ledger Technology: The Science of the Blockchain", which has been translated to Chinese, Korean and Vietnames.
Bo-Yin Yang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
B.-Y. Yang graduated from National Taiwan Universty with a BS in Physics in 1987, finished graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a PhD in mathematics in 1991 and returned to Taiwan and taught at Tamkang University. In 2002, he started working in cryptography and in 2006 moved to the Academia Sinica. His specialties are cryptographic implementations, algebraic cryptanalysis and post-quantum cryptography.
Autumn School Lecturers
Tung Chou, Osaka University, Japan
David Jao, University of Waterloo, Canada
Prof. David Jao is a professor in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. He is a member of the Center for Applied Cryptographic Research, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science (cross-appointed).
His research interests are in the areas of number theory and cryptography, with emphasis on elliptic and hyperelliptic curve cryptography. The focus of his recent work is on post-quantum cryptography and isogeny-based cryptography.
Chloe Martindale, Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands
Chloe Martindale is currently a post-doc at the Technical University of Eindhoven. Her current primary research interests are post-quantum isogeny-based cryptography and pairing-based cryptography. She obtained her PhD on the topic of `Isogeny graphs, modular polynomials, and applications' jointly from Leiden University and the University of Bordeaux in June 2018, under the supervision of Dr. Marco Streng. She obtained her masters and bachelor degrees at the University of Oxford, where she wrote her master's thesis under the supervision of Prof. Victor Flynn.
Mehdi Tibouchi, NTT, Japan
An alumni of ENS (Paris, France), Mehdi Tibouchi obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from Univ. Paris VII and Univ. Luxembourg in 2011. He is now distinguished researcher at NTT Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) and guest associate professor at Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan). His research interests cover various mathematical aspects of public-key cryptography and cryptanalysis.
Kazuo Sakiyama, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Dr. Kazuo Sakiyama is a professor at The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan. He has more than 20 years experience of digital circuit design and test especially for security applications.
Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Roger Wattenhofer is a full professor at the Information Technology and Electrical Engineering Department, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
He received his doctorate in Computer Science from ETH Zurich. He also worked some years at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington,
at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
Roger Wattenhofer's research interests are a variety of algorithmic and systems aspects in computer science and information technology,
e.g., distributed systems, positioning systems, wireless networks, mobile systems, social networks,
deep neural networks. He publishes in different communities: distributed computing
(e.g., PODC, SPAA, DISC), networking and systems (e.g., SIGCOMM, MobiCom, SenSys, OSDI), and algorithmic theory
(e.g., STOC, FOCS, SODA, ICALP). His work received multiple awards, e.g. the Prize for Innovation in Distributed
Computing for his work in Distributed Approximation. He published the book
"Distributed Ledger Technology: The Science of the Blockchain", which has been translated to Chinese, Korean and Vietnames.