Kenneth Paterson

CV: Kenny Paterson has been a Professor in the Computer Science department at ETH Zurich since 2019, where he leads the Applied Cryptography research group. Prior to that he was at Royal Holloway, University of London (2001-2019) and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (1996-2001). He also did postdocs at ETH Zurich (1993-1994) and Royal Holloway (1994-1996). He gained his PhD in the area of Discrete Mathematics from the University of London (1990-1993) and his Bachelors degree in Mathematics from the University of Glasgow (1986-1990). Kenny was made a Fellow of the IACR (2017) "for research and service contributions spanning theory and practice, and improving the security of widely deployed protocols." He was program chair of Eurocrypt 2011, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cryptology (2017-2020), and an invited speaker at Asiacrypt 2014 and Eurocrypt 2024. He had the honour of giving the IACR Distinguished Lecture in 2025. He is co-founder of the Real World Cryptography symposium. Kenny's current research interests include the analysis of deployed Cryptography (aka ``Cryptography in the Wild''), and the development of new cryptographic tools that are fashioned with practical applications in mind.