Giuseppe is a Professor, Eminent Scholar in the Cybersecurity and CCI Faculty Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Cyber Security Engineering at George Mason University. He has advanced many areas of research, including proxy re-encryption, anonymous communication, two-party computation, secure storage, and provable data possession.

His current work includes privacy-preserving machine learning and decentralised secure computing based on blockchain technology. He received the NSF CAREER Award for his research on privacy and security, and the Google Faculty Research Award, the IBM Faculty Award, and the IEEE CISTC Technical Recognition Award for his research on cloud security.

Giuseppe was a researcher at IBM Zurich Research lab (Switzerland) and a scientist at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California (USA), and worked briefly as a visiting professor at Microsoft in Redmond (USA).

He was the Farber Endowed Chair in Computer Science and Department Chair at Stevens Institute of Technology. He previously worked with Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) and was an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University (USA). Giuseppe is also one of the JHU Information Security Institute's founders.

Joos is a Professor Emeritus with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He is one of the most impactful researchers in Computer Science in the World, including in areas of cryptography, secure data communications, data mining and complex systems. His work has led to many areas of impact, including supervising the creators of the Advanced Encryption Standard. He has also worked to simplify the computational complexity of support vector machines, and which involved using a least-squares approach for learning-based classifiers. He has also enhanced the theory behind singular-value decomposition by extending it to multilinear dimensions, which has addressed complex data-mining challenges. Joos is also an IEEE Life Fellow and served as the President of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium KVAB. He also co-wrote the book defining "The Invisible Power of Mathematics".

Jens is a Chief Scientist at Nexus, and works in many areas of cryptography including in pairing-based cryptography and Zero-knowledge Proofs (ZKPs). He was previously a Professor of Cryptology at University College, London, and as the Director of Research at DFINITY. In 2016, he published a classic paper of "On the size of pairing-based non-interactive arguments", and which defines a Zero Knowledge Proof based on pairing-based cryptography. This is now known as Groth16, and is used in many applications, including with Zcash and Tornado Cash. In 2021, he won an IACR Test of Time award for the "Simulation-sound NIZK proofs for a practical language and constant size group signature". Then, in 2023, he won the IACR Test of Time Award with Amit Sahai for the 2018 paper on "Efficient Non-Interactive Proof Systems for Bilinear Groups".

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Daniele is a professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of California, San Diego and, in 2019, he was elected as a Fellow of the IACR. His main focus is on the foundations of lattice-based cryptography and its advanced applications, including fully homomorphic encryption. Overall, he has published many classic papers that relate to lattice methods, including working with Chris Peikert on "Trapdoors for lattices", and with Oded Regev on the "Worst-case to average-case reductions based on Gaussian methods". Daniele has also contributed greatly to the advancement of bootstrapping methods, including defining the DM/FHEW method - along with Leo Ducas.

He published a book on the "Complexity of Lattice Problems - A cryptographic perspective" with Shafi Goldwasser, and his paper on "Generalized Compact Knapsacks, Cyclic Lattices, and Efficient One-Way Functions" was given a FOCS 20 years test of time award in 2022. This paper led to the theoretical foundation of efficient lattice based cryptography. His paper with Regev also received the FOCS ToT award in 2024.

Gene is a Distinguished and ICS Alumni Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) where he has been since 2000. His research covers areas of security, privacy, and cryptography. From 1991 to 1996, he was a researcher at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory and then at the Information Science Institute until 2000. He is a Fulbright scholar and a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, AAAS, and IFIP. From 2009 to 2015, he was the editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS). Over the years, Gene has received a number of awards, including the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contribution Award, the 2020 IFIP Jean-Claude Laprie Award, the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award, and a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Vint is seen as one of the founding fathers of the Internet, and along with Robert Kahn, was award the ACM AM Turing Prize - the Nobel Prize of Computer Science - in 2004. Vint contributed to many areas in the creation of the Internet, including writing many RFCs (Requests For Comment) drafts, and in 1974 published the classic paper of "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication" in the IEEE Transactions on Communications. This paper basically defined the IP and TCP protocols that would eventually be used to build the Internet.

Along with the A.M. Turing Award, he received the National Medal of Technology from President Clinton in 1997, the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W Bush, and the Marconi Prize. Vint has Honorary Doctorates from over 27 universities, including ETHZ in Zurich, Yale University and the University of St Andrews. In 2012, he was induced into the Internet Hall of Fame, and, in 2023, he received the IEEE Medal of Honor for co-creating the Internet, and in sustained leadership in the creation of the Internet as critical infrastructure.

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