Talks

A list of presentations or talks I’ve given:

2025

• 3 December 2025. “Panel: Cryptographic Asset Discovery” [Link]. Panel with Itan Barmes (Qiz Security Inc), Kim Nguyen (Bundesdruckerei GmbH), Vladimir Soukharev (Infosec Global (Keyfactor)), Moderator: Jaime Gómez García (Santander Digital Services). European Conference on PQC Migration, The Hague, The Netherlands.

• 30 October 2025. “From Noise to Clarity: Adding Intelligence to the PQC Migration” [Slides][Link]. PKI Consortium’s PQC Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Annoucing OpenCryptography.com.

• 10 July 2025. “Cryptographic Posture and PQC Readiness What Every CISO Needs to Know” [Slides]. Invited talk to the Swiss Cyber Security Community, Virtual.

• 5 June 2025. “Lessons learned from the field: Cryptographic Insight from the Modern Enterprise” [Slides][Link]. ETSI/IQC Quantum Safe Cryptography Conference 2025, Madrid, Spain.

• 8 May 2025. “NCSC Workshop - The Next Generation: The Emerging Technology Standards That Will Transform Security” [Link]. Panel with Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Cyber Policy and Assessments (NCSC), Issy Hall (Cyber Security AI and EmTech Standards Lead, Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology), Gerry McQuaid (Director Telecoms and Internet Security, Ofcom), and Head of International Standards (NCSC). CYBERUK 2025, Manchester, UK.

• 30 April 2025. “Post-Quantum Online/Offline Signatures” [Slides][Project page]. Cryptographers’ Track at the RSA Conference, San Francisco, USA.

2024

• 11 August 2024. “FIDO2 in the Quantum Realm” [Slides]. Quantum Village at DEF CON 32, Las Vegas, USA.

2023

• 12 August 2023. “Exploring the Impact of PQC on Cryptographic Key Management” [Link] Panel with Sofía Celi, Deirdre Connolly, Sandra Guasch, and Ryan Hurst. Crypto and Privacy Village at DEF CON 31, Las Vegas, USA.

• 18 July 2023. “Benchmarking and Analysing NIST PQC Lattice-Based Signature Scheme Standards on the ARM Cortex M7” [Slides][Project page]. AFRICACRYPT 2023, Sousse, Tunisia.

• 26 March 2023. “Panel: Roundtable #1 – Implementation and Side Channels” [Link] with Thomas Pornin (NCC), Tobias Schneider (NXP), Daniel Genkin (Georgia Tech), Mélissa Rossi (ANSSI), and Patrick Longa (Microsoft Research). Real World PQC 2023. Tokyo, Japan.

• 23 March 2023. “Panel: What should telecom operators do first for quantum attacks in the future?” [Link] with Masayuki Miyashita and Naoki Maekawa (SoftBank), Nobuya Murai (Toshiba), and Nikolai Chernyy (SandboxAQ). SoftBank Advanced Tech Show 2023. Tokyo, Japan.

• 23 March 2023. “Future Security and Verification of PQC Practicality” [Link]. SoftBank Advanced Tech Show 2023. Tokyo, Japan.

• 15 February 2023. “Post-Quantum Fido2” [Link] (Presented by Sandra Guasch). 9th ETSI/IQC Quantum Safe Cryptography Event, Sophia Antipolis, France.

2022

• 30 November 2022. “Benchmarking and Analysing NIST PQC Lattice-Based Signature Scheme Standards on the ARM Cortex M7” [Slides][Project page]. NIST Fourth PQC Conference, Virtual.

• 14 September 2022. “How (not) to Design and Instantiate Post-Quantum Cryptography”. Co-presented with Thomas Prest. Invited talk to NIST’s Security Research Review.

• 12 August 2022. “PQC in the Real World” [Slides][Video]. DEFCON 30 - Quantum Village.

2021

• 1 December 2021. “Side Channels: Attacks, Defences, and Evaluation Schemes. Part 2 — Evaluation Techniques” [Slides][Link]. Co-presented with Elisabeth Oswald. Invited talk to NIST’s Crypto Reading Club.

• 25 November 2021. “Side-Channel Attacks on NIST PQC 3rd Round Candidates” [Slides]. Invited talk to Joint AAU/Simula Study Group.

• 17 November 2021. “Side Channels: Attacks, Defences, and Evaluation Schemes. Part 1 — Attacks and Defences” [Slides][Link]. Co-presented with Elisabeth Oswald. Invited talk to NIST’s Crypto Reading Club.

• 19 May 2021. “SoK: How (not) to Design and Implement Post-Quantum Cryptography” [Program][Slides]. Co-presented with Thomas Prest. Cryptographers’ Track at the RSA Conference 2021, Virtual Event, May 17–20, 2021.

• 12 January 2021. “Attacks on NIST PQC 3rd Round Candidates” [Program][Video][Slides]. Co-presented with Daniel Apon. IACR Real World Crypto 2021, Virtual Event.

2020

• 17 September 2020. “Isochronous Gaussian sampling: From inception to implementation” [Presentation][Slides][Project page]. International Conference on Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQCrypto) 2020.

• 19 June 2020. “Real-World Post-Quantum Security Strategies” [Link]. Quantum.Tech Congress 2020.

2019

• 16 December 2019. “Optimised Lattice-Based Key Encapsulation in Hardware: A Design Space Exploration for FrodoKEM” [Slides][url]. 17th IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding 2019.

• 24 August 2019. “Optimised Lattice-Based Key Encapsulation in Hardware” [Slides][Link]. NIST’s Second PQC Standardization Conference 2019.

• 29 May 2019. “Fault Attack Countermeasures for Error Samplers in Lattice-Based Cryptography” [Poster]. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2019.

• 2 May 2019. “A Brief Introduction to Lattice-Based Cryptography in Hardware” [Slides]. Invited talk at NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Hardware Day 2019.

2018

• 24 September 2018. “Standard Lattice-Based Key Encapsulation on Embedded Devices” [Slides]. Invited talk at Lattice Coding & Crypto Meeting.

• 11 September 2018. “Standard Lattice-Based Key Encapsulation on Embedded Devices” [Video][Slides]. IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems 2018.

• 28 May 2018. “Compact, Scalable, and Efficient Discrete Gaussian Samplers for Lattice-Based Cryptography” [Video][Slides]. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2018.

2017

• 25 July 2017. “GLITCH: A Discrete Gaussian Testing Suite For Lattice-Based Cryptography” [Poster][Project page]. International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications (ICETE 2017): SECRYPT 2018.

• 30 May 2017. “Compact and provably secure lattice-based signatures in hardware” [Slides]. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2017.

2016

• 9 December 2016. “Time-independent discrete Gaussian sampling for post-quantum cryptography” [Poster]. IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT) 2016.

• 9 June 2016. “Lattice-based encryption over standard lattices in hardware” [Poster]. ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2016.

Programme Committees and Reviewing

Steering committee for RWPQC.

Editorial board for IACR Communications in Cryptography (CiC).

Program committee for CT-RSA 2024, T-CHES 2022 (Artifacts), T-CHES 2021 (Artifacts), IndoCrypt 2020, COSADE 2020, and MAL-IoT 2019.

Reviews for conferences IACR CiC 2024, CT-RSA 2024, IACR TCHES 2023, ISIT 2023, AFRICACRYPT 2022, IMACC 2019, CRYPTO 2019, PQCrypto 2019, ASIACRYPT 2018, CT-RSA 2018, CARDIS 2018, SAC 2016, WAHC 2015, and Security and Communication Networks.

Reviews for journals ACM TECS, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Designs Codes and Cryptography.

Research Visits and Internships

• December 2018. School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.

• August 2015. Thales UK, Research and Technology, Reading, UK.

• May 2015. Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.