Helsinki University of Technology was a technical university in Finland. It was located in Otaniemi,Espoo in the Helsinki metropolitan area. The university was founded in 1849 by Grand Duke of Finland,Emperor Nicholas I and received university status in 1908. It moved from Helsinki to Otaniemi campus area in 1966. The merger of HUT with two other schools created the Aalto University in 2010,and HUT briefly held the name Aalto University School of Science and Technology before being split into four schools in 2011.
Ian Avrum Goldberg is a cryptographer and cypherpunk. He is best known for breaking Netscape's implementation of SSL,and for his role as chief scientist of Radialpoint,a Canadian software company. Goldberg is currently a professor at the Faculty of Mathematics of the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science within the University of Waterloo,and the Canada Research Chair in Privacy Enhancing Technologies. He was formerly Tor Project board of directors chairman,and is one of the designers of off the record messaging.
Dorothy Elizabeth Denning is a US-American information security researcher known for lattice-based access control (LBAC),intrusion detection systems (IDS),and other cyber security innovations. She published four books and over 200 articles. Inducted into the National Cyber Security Hall of Fame in 2012,she is now Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Defense Analysis,Naval Postgraduate School.
David Ross Cheriton is a Canadian computer scientist,businessman,philanthropist,and venture capitalist. He is a computer science professor at Stanford University,where he founded and leads the Distributed Systems Group.
Simon S. Lam is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He retired in 2018 from The University of Texas at Austin as Professor Emeritus and Regents' Chair Emeritus in Computer Science #1. He made seminal and important contributions to transport layer security,packet network verification,as well as network protocol design,verification,and performance analysis.
The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science is a professional school within the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. QS World University Rankings ranked the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science 24th in the world,10th in North America and 2nd in Canada in Computer Science in 2014. U.S. News &World Report ranked the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science 42nd in world and second in Canada.
Kaisa Nyberg is a Finnish cryptographer and computer security researcher.
Virgil Dorin Gligor is a Romanian-American professor of electrical and computer engineering who specializes in the research of network security and applied cryptography.
Mordechai M. "Moti" Yung is a cryptographer and computer scientist known for his work on cryptovirology and kleptography.
Carl E. Landwehr is an American computer scientist whose research focus is cybersecurity and trustworthy computing. His work has addressed the identification of software vulnerabilities toward high assurance software development,architectures for intrusion-tolerant and multilevel security systems,token-based authentication,and system evaluation and certification methods. In an invited essay for ACSAC 2013,he proposed the idea of developing building codes for building software that is used in critical infrastructures. He has organized an NSF funded workshop to develop a building code and research agenda for medical device software security. The final committee report is available through the Cyber Security and Policy Institute of the George Washington University,and the building code through the IEEE.
Jonathan Katz is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland who conducts research on cryptography and cybersecurity. In 2019–2020 he was a faculty member in the Volgenau School of Engineering at George Mason University,where he held the title of Eminent Scholar in Cybersecurity. In 2013–2019 he was director of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center at the University of Maryland.
Sushil Jajodia is an American computer scientist known for his work on cyber security and privacy,databases,and distributed systems.
Raouf Boutaba is an Algerian Canadian computer scientist. His research interests are in resource,network and service management in wired and wireless networked systems. His work focuses on network virtualization,network softwarization,cloud computing,and network security.
Ihab Francis Ilyas is a computer scientist who works in data science. He is currently a professor of computer science in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. He also led the Knowledge Platform team at Apple Inc. Ihab is the holder of the Thomson Reuters-NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Data Cleaning at the University of Waterloo.
M. Tamer Özsu, FRSC is a Turkish Canadian computer scientist working in the area of distributed and parallel data management. He is a University Professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo.
Adrian Perrig is a Swiss computer science researcher and professor at ETH Zurich,leading the Network Security research group. His research focuses on networking and systems security,and specifically on the design of a secure next-generation internet architecture.
Michael Waidner is a German computer scientist. He is director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology and ATHENE,the largest research institute for IT security in Europe. He is also professor of security in information technology at the department of computer science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt.
Mark Giesbrecht is a Canadian computer scientist who is the 12th dean of the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Mathematics,starting from July 1,2020. He was the Director of the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo,Canada from July 2014 until June 2020.
Thoth is a real-time,message passing operating system (OS) developed at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo,Ontario Canada.
Srini Devadas is an Indian-American computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) who conducts research on computer security,computer architectures,and applied cryptography.
