2009 Summit Speakers
Dr Bart Preneel is full professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, where is he heading the COSIC research group. He was visiting professor at five universities in Europe. He has authored more than 300 reviewed scientific publications and is inventor of three patents. His main research interests are cryptography and information security. He has crypto-analyzed and designed several cryptographic algorithms and has been active on topics such as electronic identity cards, electronic voting and privacy. Bart Preneel is president of the IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research). He is currently coordinating the ECRYPT II network of excellence in cryptology. He has served as program chair of a dozen international conferences and he has been invited speaker at more than 50 conferences. In 2003, he has received the European Information Security Award in the area of academic research. In his spare time he conducts the bigband of the K.U. Leuven and plays saxophone.
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Dr Virgil Gligor received his BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. He taught at the University of Maryland between 1976 and 2007, and is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and co-Director of CyLab. Over the past thirty-five years, his research interests ranged from access control mechanisms, penetration analysis, and denial-of-service protection to cryptographic protocols and applied cryptography. He was a consultant to Burroughs (1977–1981) and IBM (1984–1999) Corporations, and is currently serving on Microsoft's Trusted Computing Academic Advisory Board (2003–present).
He served the profession as the chair or co-chair of several international conferences and symposia including IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium, Internet Society's Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium, IEEE Dependable Computing for Critical Applications, IEEE-ACM Symposium on Reliability in Distributed Software and Databases, and ASIA CCS. He was a member of several US Government INFOSEC Study Groups that set research agendas in information security, and served on a National Research Council panel on information security (1987–1988). He published over one hundred technical articles and was awarded eight patents. Gligor was an Editorial Board member of Information Systems (1984–1993), Journal of Computer Security (1991–2000), ACM Transactions on Information System Security (2001–2008), IEEE Transactions on Computers (2005–2007), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (2007–2008) and is currently the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. In 2005, Gligor was elected chair of ACM's Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (2005–2009), and received the National Information Systems Security Award jointly given by NIST and NSA in the US.
Topic: From Asymptotic Proofs to Network-Adversary Attacks against Secure Encryption Schemes
Dr Markus Jakobsson is a Principal Scientist at PARC, and a member of the PARC security group. Before joining PARC, Markus held positions at Bell Labs, RSA Labs, New York University, Indiana University, and RavenWhite, the anti-fraud startup that he co-founded. He holds over 100 patents and over a hundred papers, and is the editor and author of two recent books, "Crimeware" (Symantec Press, 2008) and "Phishing and Countermeasures" (Wiley, 2006).
While he is maybe best known for his research on phishing and crimeware, he has also made significant contributions to online payment schemes, applied security, security education, and privacy-preserving cryptographic protocols. Markus believes in taking a holistic approach to security, in which everything is measured, modeled and considered in the final design. This belief has compelled him to study the human aspect of security, and has guided his work on phishing, crimeware, user authentication, and user messaging. He has a PhD and MSc in Computer Science from University of California at San Diego and a Masters degree in engineering from Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden.
Topic: Fighting Mobile Malware — The Need for a Paradigm Shift
* Image courtesy PARC, photographer Brian Tramontana.
Dr Richard J. Hughes is a Laboratory Fellow in the Physics Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is co-principal investigator of projects in both free-space and optical fiber based quantum key distribution and holds two US patents in these areas. Richard obtained his PhD in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics from the University of Liverpool, England in 1978 and has held research positions at: Oxford University and The Queen's College, Oxford; the California Institute of Technology; and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. He has held distinguished visiting scientist positions at Oxford University (Dr. Lee Fellow, Christ Church, 1994) and at the University of Oslo, Norway (1993). In 1996, 1998 and 2006 he was awarded Los Alamos Distinguished Performance Awards for his quantum cryptography research, and in 1997 he was awarded the Los Alamos Fellows' Prize for his work on quantum information science. He became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1999. In 2001 he was co-winner of an R&D100 Award for "Free-space quantum cryptography". In 2004 Richard and the Los Alamos Quantum Key Distribution Team were co-winners of the European Union's Descartes Prize. He has authored over 140 scientific papers on quantum field theory, the foundations of quantum mechanics, quantum cryptography and quantum computation.
Topic: Long-distance decoy state quantum keydistribution with superconducting single-photon detectors.
Fred Carter serves the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC) in a variety of demanding roles as Senior Policy and Technology Advisor. His primary responsibilities involve providing strategic research, information, and advisory services to the IPC Commissioners, management and staff on a wide range of technology and privacy policy issues. He contributed to recent IPC publications on Identity Theft, Identity Management, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Biometric Encryption, Cloud Computing, and the impacts of Web 2.0 technologies and services. Prior to joining the IPC, Mr. Carter worked for the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Zero-Knowledge Systems, and the Standards Council of Canada in similar policy capacities.
Topic: Privacy Forward… Currents for the Next Decade
Sir Peter Knight is Senior Principal at Imperial College, London. He is responsible for the College’s research strategy and deputy to the Rector of Imperial. He is a member of the Imperial College Management Board and Council, and Professor of Quantum Optics. He was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2005 for his work in optical physics. He was until 2008 Principal of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperial College London. He was Head of the Physics Department, Imperial College London from 2001 to 2005. Peter Knight is a Past-President of the Optical Society of America and was for 7 years a member of their Board of Directors. He is a Director of the OSA Foundation. He was coordinator of the SERC Nonlinear Optics Initiative, past-chair of the EPS Quantum Electronics and Optics Division and Editor of the Journal of Modern Optics from 1987 to 2006. He is Editor of Contemporary Physics and serves on a number of other Editorial Boards. He is a Thomson-ISI “Highly Cited Author.” Knight is chair of the Defence Scientific Advisory Council at the UK Ministry of Defence, and chairs Science Board of the Science and Technology Facilities Council. Knight was also Chief Scientific Advisor at the UK National Physical Laboratory until the end of 2005. His research centres on theoretical quantum optics, strong field physics and especially on quantum information science. He has won a number of prizes and awards including the Thomas Young Medal of the Institute of Physics and the Ives Medal of the OSA. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, a Humboldt Research Award holder at the University of Konstanz and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas at Austin and at the University of Rochester. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Optical Society of America and of the Royal Society.
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Jay Ingram is a Canadian science journalist, author and broadcaster. He has been host of the television show Daily Planet (originally titled @discovery.ca), which airs on Discovery Channel Canada, since the channel's inception in 1995, and is the former host of the CBC Radio show "Quirks and Quarks." Ingram has written of several bestselling books including Talk, Talk, Talk: Decoding the Mysteries of Speech, The Science of Everyday Life, The Velocity of Honey: And More Science of Everyday Life and The Burning House: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Brain, which won the 1995 Canadian Science Writers Book Award. Ingram's most recent popular science book is titled Theatre of the Mind: Pulling Back the Curtain on Consciousness published by Harper Collins in October 2005. Ingram earned a master’s degree in microbiology from the University of Toronto. He has also been awarded honorary degrees from three different Canadian universities (Carleton, McGill and McMaster), and his books have been awarded three Canadian Science Writers' Awards. In 2009, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada "for his contributions towards making complex science accessible to the public as a broadcaster, public speaker and author, and for his leadership of future generations of science journalists".
Topic: Watson and Crick; Lennon and McCartney
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