Invited Speakers

Jeremy Clark is an associate professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering. At Concordia, he holds the NSERC/Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton/Catallaxy Industrial Research Chair in Blockchain Technologies. He obtained his PhD from the University of Waterloo, where his gold medal dissertation was on designing and deploying secure voting systems including Scantegrity—the first cryptographically verifiable system used in a public sector election. He wrote one of the earliest academic papers on Bitcoin, completed several research projects in the area, and contributed to the first textbook. Beyond research, he has worked with several municipalities on voting technology and testified to both the Canadian Senate and House finance committees on Bitcoin.

Huck Bennett is an assistant professor in the computer science department at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research area is theoretical computer science, with a focus on lattices and error-correcting codes. Before coming to Colorado, Bennett was an assistant professor at Oregon State University from 2021 to 2023. Before that, Bennett was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Michigan and at Northwestern University. He earned his Ph.D. from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University advised by Daniel Dadush and Chee Yap.

Philippe Gaborit was born in Bordeaux, France in 1969. He got a Master Degree at the French engineering school, École des Mines de Saint-Etienne in 1993. He received a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics at Bordeaux University in 1997 and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in Mathematics at Limoges University in 2004. After a post-doc at University of Illinois at Chicago from 1997 to 1999, he became Associate Professor at the Mathematics Department of Limoges University from 1999 to 2008. Since 2008 he is Professor at the Computer Science Department of Limoges University. His research interests include Coding theory, Code-based Cryptography, Security, DNA codes and Quantum codes. He is one of the co-inventors of the HQC code-based encryption algorithm, standardized by NIST in 2025.

Charlotte Lefevre is a postdoctoral researcher with the INRIA team CAPSULE at the University of Rennes, France. She obtained her PhD from Radboud University, the Netherlands, in February 2026. Her research interests lie in the design and provable security analysis of symmetric cryptographic schemes, particularly those based on permutations.