The Speakers
[Timothy Spiller]
Professor Tim Spiller moved to York in 2014 as founding Director of the York Centre for Quantum Technologies. He is also currently Director of the UK Quantum Communications Hub, part of the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme. Prior to this he was at the University of Leeds in the roles of Head of the Quantum Information Group and Director of Research for the School of Physics and Astronomy. Prior to 2009 Spiller was Director of Quantum Information Processing (QIP) Research at HP Labs Bristol – an activity that he established in 1995 – and a Hewlett-Packard Distinguished Scientist. He has spent over 40 years researching quantum theory, superconducting systems and quantum hardware and technologies and has published extensively across this spectrum. He led HP’s strategy on the commercialisation of QIP research, is an inventor on 25 patents linked to quantum technologies and applications, and was additionally a consultant inside HP on networking, communications and nanotechnology.
[Eden Figueroa]
Prof. Eden Figueroa was awarded his BSc in Engineering Physics and his MSc in Optical Engineering at Monterrey Tech, Mexico in 2000 and 2002 respectively. From 2003 to 2008, he was a PhD student in the Quantum Technology Group of Prof. A. I. Lvovsky at the University of Konstanz in Germany and later at the Institute for Quantum Information Science at the University of Calgary, Canada. His PhD thesis entitled: “A quantum memory for squeezed light” was one of the first experimental implementations of quantum memory for quantized light fields. In 2009, he joined the Quantum Dynamics Group of Prof. G. Rempe at the Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik in Garching, Germany where he worked in implementation of quantum networks utilizing single-atoms trapped in high-finesse optical cavities. Starting in 2013 he has been an Associate Professor and the Group leader of the Quantum Information Technology group at Stony Brook University, where he has developed scalable room temperature quantum memories and entanglement sources, aiming to constructing the first working prototype of a quantum repeater network. Since Jan. 2019, Prof. Figueroa is also joint appointment with the Instrumentation Division and the Computer Science Initiative at Brookhaven National Laboratories. The collaboration between Stony Brook and BNL is developing the Long Island Quantum Information Distribution Network (LIQuIDNet), a first prototype of a quantum network distributing photonic entanglement over long distances.
[Ludovic Perret]
Ludovic Perret is an associate professor at Sorbonne University. His expertise is in the design, analysis, and deployment of post-quantum cryptography (published more than 60 scientific articles on these topics). In 2018, Ludovic was awarded the Atos & Joseph Fourier First Prize in the area of Quantum Technologies for his contributions to post-quantum cryptography. Ludovic is also a deep-tech entrepreneur; named in the top 100 of the most influential French's innovators in 2022. Ludovic is also deeply committed to the standardization of post-quantum cryptography. He is a co-author of the GeMSS digital signature scheme selected for the ongoing third round of the NIST post-quantum standardization process and of PKP-DSS a post-quantum digital scheme awarded by a third prize (2020) in a post-quantum cryptography design competition organized by China. He is co-chair of CSA’s Quantum-Safe Security working group and an active member of the ATARC Quantum Working Group, the quantum-safe cryptography specification group for ETSI and various IETF groups dealing with post-quantum cryptography.
[Reza Azarderakhsh]
Dr. Reza Azarderakhsh is an associate professor in the Department of Computer science and Engineering at FAU. He is also founder and president of PQSecure Technologies. Before joining FAU, he was an NSERC post-doc research fellow at the Center for Applied Cryptographic Research and Department of Combinatroics and Optimization, at the University of Waterloo. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (TCAS-I). He is author/coauthor of more than 100 journals and conference papers in the area of applied cryptography and engineering and protocol design. His research has been supported by NSF, NIST, DoD, and many others from industry. Dr. Azarderakhsh is a co-submitter of SIKE to NIST PQC standardization program.
[Ramis Movassagh]
Dr. Ramis Movassagh's research focus is near-term quantum computation, algorithms, and complexity. He also works on applied random matrix and free probability theory, and approximation theory. Dr. Movassagh is a permanent research staff member at IBM Quantum at MIT-IBM Watson AI lab. Prior to that he was the Herman Goldstine fellow in mathematics at IBM Yorktown Heights. He obtained his PhD in mathematics from MIT, and BSc in applied and engineering physics from Cornell University. He has held research appointments at University of Columbia, University of Chicago, Northeastern University, and ETH-Zurich.
[Vladimir Shpilrain]
Vladimir Shpilrain is a Professor of Mathematics at the City University of New York. His research interests include information security, complexity of algorithms, combinatorial and computational group theory. He is a recipient of numerous research awards from NSF, NSA, and DoD, and a Fulbright fellow.
His current research is focused on post-quantum cryptography including group-based and statistics-based cryptography. He is also working in popular areas of applied cryptography such as secure delegation of computation, redactable blockchains, and machine learning on encrypted data.
[Opening Remarks: Dean of Sciences at CUNY Graduate Center]
Joshua C. Brumberg following graduation from The Bronx High School of Science, studied Biology at Williams College and then earned a PhD in Neurobiology from the University of Pittsburgh studying how the rat integrates information from multiple facial whiskers using physiological and computational techniques. Dr. Brumberg went on to complete post-doctoral fellowships in the Department of Neurobiology at Yale University and the Department of Biological Sciences and Columbia University, before starting his own laboratory in the Department of Psychology at Queens College of The City University of New York. In his laboratory he utilizes physiological and anatomical methods to study how environmental experience impacts the development and function of cortical circuits. Dr. Brumberg has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles and has received multiple grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Currently, his research focuses on how sensory experience shapes the development of cortical circuits. In addition to his scholarly work Dr. Brumberg has served several administrative functions within CUNY, including directing their doctoral training in Psychology and is presently the Dean for the Sciences at The CUNY Graduate Center, in charge of CUNY’s PhD programs in the sciences.
[Organizers: Andrea Alú, Delaram Kahrobaei]
AA: Einstein Distinguished Professor at CUNY Graduate Center and ASRC.
DK: Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science Queens College. Honorary Chair of Cybersecurity, University of York (UK)