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Bart Preneel

imec-COSIC, KU Leuven
Full professor
Professor Bart Preneel of KU Leuven heads the  imec-COSIC (COmputer Security and Industrial Cryptography) research group. His main research areas are information security and privacy with a focus on cryptographic algorithms and protocols and efficient and secure implementations.  He has authored more than 400 scientific publications and is inventor of five patents. He teaches cryptology, network security and discete algebra at the KU Leuven and was visiting professor at the Ruhr Universitaet Bochum (Germany), the T.U.Graz (Austria), the University of Bergen (Norway), DTU (Denmark) and the Universiteit Gent (Belgium). In '93-'94 he was a research fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. He undertakes industrial consulting for major players in the finance, telco and hardware industry and has co-designed the Belgian eID and e-voting scheme. He is active in international standaridzation . Professor Preneel has served as Director, (1997-present), Vice President (2002-2007) and President (2008-2013) of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and is co-founder and chairman of LSEC vzw (Leuven Security Excellence Consortium). He is a fellow of the IACR, a member of the Permanent Stakeholders group of ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) and of the Academia Europaea. He has testified for the European and Belgian parliament. He has been invited speaker at more than 150 conferences and schools in 40 countries. In 2014 he received the RSA Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics.