Speaker: Yvo Desmedt University College London
Time: 2007-03-28 16:30-2007-03-28 17:30
Venue: FIT Building,Tsinghua University

Abstract:

Yvo Desmedt received his Ph.D. (Summa cum Laude) from the University of Leuven, Belgium (1984). He is presently the BT Chair of Information Security at University College London, UK. He is also a courtesy professor at Florida State University. His interests include cryptography, network security and computer security. Yvo Desmedt is ranked in the top 5 most prolific authors (out of 1245) in Crypto/Eurocrypt, the two main venues in the area of cryptography. He is program chair of ICITS 2007, was co-program chair of CANS 2005, program chair of PKC 2003, the 2002 ACM Workshop on Scientific Aspects of Cyber Terrorism and Crypto '94. He is editor-in-chief of the IEE Proceedings of Information Security, editor of the Journal of Computer Security, of Information Processing Letters and of Advances in mathematics of Communications. He has given invited lectures at several conferences and workshop in 5 different continents.

 

Short Bio:

Yvo Desmedt received his Ph.D. (Summa cum Laude) from the University of Leuven, Belgium (1984). He is presently the BT Chair of Information Security at University College London, UK. He is also a courtesy professor at Florida State University. His interests include cryptography, network security and computer security. Yvo Desmedt is ranked in the top 5 most prolific authors (out of 1245) in Crypto/Eurocrypt, the two main venues in the area of cryptography. He is program chair of ICITS 2007, was co-program chair of CANS 2005, program chair of PKC 2003, the 2002 ACM Workshop on Scientific Aspects of Cyber Terrorism and Crypto '94. He is editor-in-chief of the IEE Proceedings of Information Security, editor of the Journal of Computer Security, of Information Processing Letters and of Advances in mathematics of Communications. He has given invited lectures at several conferences and workshop in 5 different continents.