Keynote Speakers

Nadia El-Mansouri

EPFL, Switzerland

Transparent Proofs at Scale: Where the Constants Actually Go

Nadia El-Mansouri researches zero-knowledge proof systems and their use in scalable, auditable infrastructure. Her recent work reduces prover time for general-purpose SNARKs by an order of magnitude and studies the trusted-setup question for transparent alternatives.

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Léa Fontaine

École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France

Homomorphic Encryption Leaves the Lab: Lessons From Three Deployments

Léa Fontaine works on lattice-based cryptography and fully homomorphic encryption, with a focus on making advanced primitives fast enough for deployment. She has co-authored reference implementations of several NIST post-quantum candidates and leads a research group on privacy-preserving computation.

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Marcus Adeyemi

University of Cape Town, South Africa

Small Devices, Real Adversaries: The State of Lightweight Cryptanalysis

Marcus Adeyemi is a symmetric-key cryptanalyst known for practical attacks on lightweight block ciphers and for his work on the security of authenticated encryption in constrained devices. He chairs the working group on cryptographic standards for the African Union Commission.

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Kenji Watanabe

NTT Research, Japan

Threshold Cryptography for the Rest of Us

Kenji Watanabe works on secure multi-party computation and threshold cryptography, bridging theory and standardisation. He has contributed to threshold signature drafts at NIST and studies the round complexity of maliciously secure protocols.

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Priya Raghavan

Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

After the Standardisation: Open Problems in Post-Quantum Cryptography

Priya Raghavan studies post-quantum cryptography, with recent contributions to isogeny-based key exchange and to the concrete security of code-based schemes. She co-organises the annual Post-Quantum Cryptography school in Chennai.

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