Invited Speakers
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Elette Boyle, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Brief Bio: Elette Boyle is presently an assistant professor and associate director of the FACT (Foundations & Applications of Cryptographic Theory) Center at IDC Herzliya, Israel. She received her PhD from MIT, and served as a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University and at the Technion. Elette's research focuses in secure multi-party computation, oblivious data structures, and distributed algorithm design. Her recent work on homomorphic secret sharing and its implications to secure computation was selected as Best Paper of Crypto 2016
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Tancrède Lepoint, SRI International, New York
Brief Bio: Tancrède Lepoint, Ph.D., is a computer scientist at SRI International. With expertise in cryptology and computer security, his research addresses new cryptographic challenges posed by the Internet, quantum computers and big data, including: homomorphic encryption, post-quantum cryptography and Internet-of-Things. He published more than 20 papers in cryptography, many of which bridge the gap between theory and practice, and is the current co-editor of the Cryptology ePrint Archive operated by the IACR. Lepoint holds a Ph.D. in computer science from École Normale Supérieure in France and University of Luxembourg.
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Saikat Datta, Policy Director, Centre for Internet & Society, India