Reza Azarderakhsh

Dr. Reza Azarderakhsh brings more than 15 years of experience in the areas of cryptographic engineering, protocol design, and cryptanalysis of various cryptography solutions. He received his PhD in Computer Engineering from Western University and that was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Applied Cryptographic Research at University of Waterloo. He has published more than 100 papers in top-tier journals and conferences in the field. He has experience working on projects for government and industry. He serves as an editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Cryptography Track and is a co-submitter of the Supersingular Isogeny Key Encapsulation (SIKE) algorithm in the NIST post-quantum cryptography standardization competition.