Sofía Celi

Brave

Sofía Celi is a cryptography researcher at Brave. She researches around privacy-preserving technologies and post-quantum cryptography. She is also the co-chair of hprc at IRTF, pquip at IETF, and anti-fraud at W3C. She won the IEEE S&P Distinguished paper award in 2023, and is part of the Steering Comittee of LatinCrypt.

Javier Lopez

Universidad de Málaga

Javier López es Catedrático de Ingeniería Telemática en la Universidad de Málaga, así como Director del Grupo de Investigación “Network, Information and Computer Security (NICS) Lab”, y centra su actividad investigadora principalmente en las áreas de Servicios y Protocolos de Seguridad en Redes y Protección de Infraestructuras Críticas, áreas en las que ha dirigido más de medio centenar de proyectos y contratos de investigación, entre ellos quince proyectos financiados por la Comisión Europea.

Actualmente, es Consejero del International Security Advisory Board  de Huawei, y Vice-Chair del Comité IFIP TC11 (Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems), habiendo sido el representante español en el mismo durante quince años. Con anterioridad, ha sido Presidente de la Red de Excelencia Nacional de Investigación en Ciberseguridad (RENIC), así como Presidente del Subcomité de estandarización en Protección de Datos, Privacidad y Gestión de la Identidad de UNE/AENOR. Igualmente, Chair del ERCIM WG on Security and Trust Management y Chair del IFIP WG on Trust Management.

Adicionalmente, también ha sido co-Editor in Chief del “International Journal of Information Security” desde 2004 a 2021, y miembro de los Consejos Editoriales de otra decena de revistas internacionales, entre las que destacan “IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing”, “IEEE Wireless Communications”, “Computers & Security” y “IEEE Internet of Things Journal”.

Angela Robinson

NIST

Angela Robinson is a mathematician in the Computer Security Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Her research focuses on code-based cryptography and cryptanalysis in the hamming metric and privacy-enhancing cryptography. She has participated in the NIST Post Quantum Cryptography Standardization project since joining NIST in October 2018. She has contributed to cryptographic standards development and standards updates in FIPS 186-5, NIST SP800-186, FIPS 203, NIST SP800-227, and several NISTIR’s.

Dr. Robinson currently serves as the co-chair for the Privacy R&D Interagency Working Group, one of 13 coordination areas of the United States’ Networking and Information Technology R&D program. She helped develop the United States’ National Strategy to Advance Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing and Analytics which was released at the 2023 White House Summit for Democracy. She is now helping lead the development of the 2024 National Privacy R&D Strategy. Dr. Robinson received the 2023 Women in Technology Rising Star Award which honors a woman in the beginning stages of her career who has demonstrated exemplary leadership traits and mentorship.

Rainer Steinwandt

University of Alabama in Huntsville

Rainer Steinwandt is with The University of Alabama in Huntsville in the United States, where he serves as Dean of the College of Science and as Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences. Before that, he served as Chair of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and Director of FAU’s Center for Cryptology & Information Security. His primary research interest is in quantum-resistant cryptography. For a multi-year project in this area, funded through the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme, he received a 2018 NATO SPS Partnership Prize. Currently, he serves as NATO country Project Director for a multi-year project devoted to «Secure Communication via Classical and Quantum Technologies» with partners from Finland, Slovakia, and Spain.