Speakers

Olivier Blazy is a senior professor at the École Polytechnique, where he has been a faculty member since 2021. He completed his PhD at Université Paris Diderot in 2012, focusing on zero-knowledge proofs and implicit proofs. Before his current role, he held a post-doctoral position at the Ruhr-University of Bochum from 2012 to 2014 and was an Associate Professor at the University of Limoges from 2014 to 2021. Blazy's research interests include post-quantum cryptography, authenticated key exchange protocols, and the application of cryptography for privacy protection. His recent work involves secure messaging systems and collaborations on online age verification with the French data protection agency. His contributions to the field have been recognized through publications in significant venues in both security and cryptography like USENIX Security and Crypto.

Claude Crépeau received a Ph.D. from MIT in 1990. He later was a postdoc at the Université Paris-Sud and has been a CNRS researcher at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, from 1991 to 2005. He has been an Associate Professor at the Université de Montréal from 1995 to 1998 and is an Associate Professor at McGill University since 1998. He has served from 1991 to 1995 as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Cryptology. He later served as the Associate Editor for Complexity and Cryptography of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 1995 to 1997. In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research. In 2023, he received the E.H. Dijkstra prize for Distributed Computing. He recently became an INRIA international chair for the period 2024-2028.

Claude has worked extensively at the design of cryptographic protocols, including Zero-knowledge protocols, and Multiparty Computations. His major contribution has been to offer alternative assumptions under which such protocols may be implemented using noisy channels and quantum channels. In 1993, together with five international colleagues, he published a paper introducing the new concept of "quantum teleportation". The future of the "quantum internet" is going to be based on quantum teleportation. His latest research has led to a practical implementation of zero-knowledge proofs where soundness is guaranteed by Special Relativity.

Prof. Broadbent is a Full Professor at the University of Ottawa, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, with cross appointments to the Department of Physics and to the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Prof. Broadbent holds the Canada Research Chair in Quantum Communications and Cryptography. Her research relates to cryptography, communication, and information processing in a quantum world. Prof. Broadbent holds a Ph.D. from the Université de Montréal, where she studied under the supervision of Gilles Brassard and Alain Tapp.

Aloni Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science at the University of Chicago. His research explores the interplay between theoretical cryptography, privacy, law, and policy. Aloni earned his PhD in the Cryptography and Information Security group at MIT, advised by Shafi Goldwasser. Before joining the University of Chicago, Aloni was a postdoc at Boston University, joint at the Hariri Institute for Computing and the School of Law.

Bailey Kacsmar is an Assistant Professor in the Computing Science department at the University of Alberta and an Alberta machine intelligence institute (Amii) fellow. Previously, she completed both her master's and her PhD at the University of Waterloo. Her research is on the development of human-centered privacy-enhancing technologies through the parallel study of technical systems for privacy alongside the corresponding user perceptions, concerns, and comprehension of these technologies. Her work has been published in venues such as USENIX Security, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), and the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS).

Héber H. Arcolezi is a tenured researcher at Inria Grenoble in France. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University Bourgogne Franche-Comté in 2022, followed by a postdoctoral research position at Inria Saclay & École Polytechnique. His current research interests are on differential privacy and the ethical aspects of machine learning, including fairness and privacy issues.