Dr. Waters received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University in 2004 and 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 noted as a founder of Functional Encryption and Attribute-Based Encryption. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, a Microsoft Faculty Fellow, a Sloan Research Fellowship, Packard Science and Engineering Fellowship, and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) recipient, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow and winner of the 2015 ACM Grace Murray Hopper award.

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.

Prior to coming to UT, Aaronson taught for nine years in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at MIT. As a David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor at the University of Austin his primary area of research is theoretical computer science, and his 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 lectures and published papers on the capabilities and limits of quantum computers, computational complexity theory, as well as his book "Quantum Computing since Democritus". You can find out more about Scott's work on his blog. We also highly recommend the video "From Quantum Computing to AI Safety".

Sal is a seasoned information security professional with over 30 years of experience spanning small and large corporations as well as government sectors. His expertise includes cybersecurity, identity management, and security token technologies, with a strong emphasis on standards development and implementation. Sal has made significant contributions to international and national standards bodies, and various INCITS/ANSI committees. His work has influenced numerous domestic and international standards in areas such as security tokens, ID cards, identity management, privacy, cryptography, cloud security, and blockchain technologies.

Jon Rolf is the current Director of NIAP, the US Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme validation body. In previous assignments he managed the strategy to address security requirements and capabilities in commercial technologies, worked in the Unified Cross Domain Management Office as manager of the Technology Division, managed the Trusted Computing Portfolio in the Commercial Solutions Center, and managed the development of trusted voice products in the STU III program office. He is the highest rated speaker of the International Common Criteria Conference 2024.

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.

Jeff is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google and focuses on hyperscalar platform integrity solutions. He has worked on Google’s in-house Titan root-of-trust chip, has made significant contributions to the CMVP, TCG, and Caliptra programs, and is now applying Google’s domain experience to help advance the state of attestation technology in the wider industry.

Kris Gaj received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Warsaw University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland. At George Mason University he does research and teaches courses in the area of cryptographic engineering, reconfigurable computing, and hardware security. His research projects center on new hardware architectures for public key cryptosystems including post-quantum cryptosystems, secret key ciphers , hash functions, lightweight cryptography, and codebreaking, as well as benchmarking of cryptographic hardware, high-level synthesis, and software/hardware code design.

Ting Lu has earned master's degrees in Computational Mechanics from the University of New Mexico and Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He has dedicated 25 years of his career to the IC design industry. Currently, he holds the position of Distinguished Architect at Rivian Automotive. His previous experience includes roles as SoC and Security Architect at Nvidia, Intel, and Xilinx.

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.

John Traver has worked in FW Development and Architecture for 18 years. As a Principal Member of Technical Staff at AMD’s Product Security Office (PSO), John is responsible for Root of Trust security including integration of the Caliptra Project and led architecture and design of AMD’s Root of Trust crypto module which is currently a Module in Process for FIPS 140-3 Certification. Previously, John led FW architecture for Micron’s Flash Translation Layer and was a Lead Designer for Intel’s CSME.

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 CEO at atsec U.S. Corporation. She runs the overall U.S. branch operation, coordinates with atsec 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 an expert member of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27 and CMUF Steering Committee Member.

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.

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.

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.