Yvo G. Desmedt

Yvo G. Desmedt (born 1956) is the Jonsson Distinguished Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, and in addition Chair of Information Communication Technology at University College London. He was a pioneer of threshold cryptography and is an International Association for Cryptologic Research Fellow. He also made crucial observations that were used in the cryptanalysis of the Merkle–Hellman knapsack cryptosystem and observed properties of the Data Encryption Standard which were used by Eli Biham and Adi Shamir when they invented differential cryptanalysis.

Education Desmedt received his M.Sc in electrical engineering from the University of Leuven, Belgium in 1979. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Leuven, Belgium in 1984.

Career Desmedt has been the Jonsson Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas,

His other professional activities include Member of Cyber Security Research and Education Institute. Editor in Chief IET Information Security Journal Chair of the Steering Committee of: International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security International Conference on Information Theoretic Security Member of the Steering Committee of the International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography (PKC) He has been active in research for over 30 years mainly in the field of cryptography, network security, critical infrastructure and computer security. His work has resulted in 29 peer-reviewed journal articles, 138 conference and workshop papers, 5 editorships, 25 reference works and 19 informal publications

Awards and honors 100 Year Bell Telephone Belgium Prize, 1983 International Association of Cryptologic Research Fellow, 2010