Speakers
Prof. Brent Waters
Prof. Waters is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and Director of the Cryptography and Information Security group at NTT Research. His research interests are in the areas of cryptography. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, a Microsoft Faculty Fellow, a Sloan Research Fellowship, Packard Science and Engineering Fellowship, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) recipient, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow and winner of the 2015 ACM Grace Murray Hopper award.
Dr. Jeff Crume
Jeff Crume is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Master Inventor with more than 40 years’ experience in the IT industry. He has a PhD in Cybersecurity and serves as an Adjunct Professor at NC State University. Jeff’s YouTube videos have been viewed more than 10 million times, he authored the book "Inside Internet Security: What Hackers Don't Want You To Know”, and was a contributing author to the "Information Security Management Handbook.” He is a member of the inaugural class of the NC State University Computer Science Alumni Hall of Fame and serves on the editorial board for the “Information and Computer Security” research journal. Jeff lived in Beijing on assignment in 2006 and has worked with clients in 50 countries.
Dr. Lily (Lidong) Chen
Dr. Lily (Lidong) Chen is a mathematician and NIST Fellow. She was the former manager of Cryptographic Technology Group in Computer Security Division, NIST. Her areas of research include cryptographic protocols, zero-knowledge proof, special featured digital signature schemes, network security, and security for wireless and mobility. Dr. Chen had twenty years of experience in academia and industry in cryptography research and applications before she joined NIST in 2005. Dr. Chen has actively contributed to cryptography and security standards in various organizations.
Prof. Scott Aaronson
Prior to coming to UT, Aaronson taught for nine years in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at MIT. His primary area of research is theoretical computer science, and his research interests center around the capabilities and limits of quantum computers, and computational complexity theory more generally. As a leading mathematical mind of our time, he has given numerous lectures and published papers on the capabilities and limits of quantum computers, computational complexity theory, as well as his book "Quantum Computing since Democritus".
Marc Ireland
Marc Ireland holds a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo and has been working in the industry for 18 years. He is a former laboratory director for a prominent FIPS and Common Criteria lab. He currently works for NXP Semiconductors as a federal security certifications expert helping to define and execute NXP's certification strategy in North America.
Dr. Yi Mao
Yi Mao, CISSP, holds a Ph.D. in Mathematical Logic (2003) and a Master’s degree in Computer Science (2000) from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Mao is the Managing Director at atsec U.S. Corporation, where she runs the overall U.S. branch operation, coordinates with atsec's sibling branches in Europe and Asia, and supervises IT product security testing and evaluation based on standards such as FIPS and Common Criteria (CC). She is a member of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27 and CMUF liaison officer to the ISO expert working group developing the ISO standards for FIPS 140-3 and CC.
Stephan Mueller
Stephan Mueller holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration (1999) from the Technical University Dresden, Germany. Stephan Mueller currently works as a principal consultant and evaluator with atsec information security GmbH, Germany, where his main responsibilities include evaluating the security aspects of IT products based on industry standards including FIPS 140-3 and Common Criteria. Consultancy services are provided for architecting secure products, especially in the Open Source and Linux realm as well as operating systems in general.
Dr. Marcos Portnoi
Marcos Portnoi is an electronics and information security engineer with a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Delaware. He has over 10 years of experience in the field of cryptography, network security, and secure protocols. He currently is Lab Director and Chief Information Security Officer at atsec information security, where he leads a team of experts in performing security evaluations and certifications of cryptographic modules, products, and systems.
Swapneela Unkule
Swapneela Unkule holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Texas State University, San Marcos, and she has been working for atsec information security corporation, USA for over 10 years. Swapneela’s main responsibility is managing the CST lab which includes testing the security aspects of IT products based on industry standards, particularly FIPS 140.
Joachim Vandersmissen
Joachim holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from KU Leuven, Belgium. As an IT Security Consultant at atsec information security corporation, he performs FIPS 140-2 and 140-3 testing, Common Criteria evaluations under the NIAP scheme, and Entropy Source Validation testing.
Renaudt Nunez
Renaudt has over 20 years of industry knowledge and is a Senior IT Security Consultant and Deputy CST Lab Manager for atsec information security corporation with over 10 years of FIPS 140-2 and 140-3 validation experience.