Alex Dent

Alex Dent is a Senior Director of Engineering at Qualcomm, where they lead the Integrated Product Security Engineering group, focusing on the design and management of security architectures for Qualcomm's chipsets. With a background as a Reader in Information Security at Royal Holloway, University of London, Alex published over 30 peer-reviewed articles and a textbook during their academic career. They obtained a Ph.D. in discrete mathematics and a first-class M.Maths. degree from the University of Oxford. Since joining Qualcomm in 2011, Alex has been instrumental in ensuring the security of various chipset products, overseeing critical certification processes and incident response situations.