Kenny Paterson

Kenny Paterson joined the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich in April 2019. Prior to that he was a Professor of Information Security at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research over the last two decades has mostly been in the area of cryptography, with a strong emphasis being on the analysis of deployed cryptographic systems and the development of provably secure solutions to real-world cryptographic problems. He co-founded the Real World Cryptography series of workshops to support the development of this broad area and to strengthen the links between academia and industry. He was Program Chair for EUROCRYPT 2011, an invited speaker at ASIACRYPT 2014, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cryptology from 2017 to 2020. He was made a Fellow of the IACR in 2017.