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 Mariana Raykova2 

Mariana Raykova (Google)

 

Mariana Raykova is a researcher in cryptography and security, with a focus on both theoretical foundations and practical applications of cryptographic protocols to improve system security. Her work spans secure computation, oblivious data structures, zero knowledge proofs, verifiable computation, and obfuscation. After a postdoctoral position at IBM Research, she held research roles at SRI International and Yale University. Since 2019, she has been a Research Scientist at Google.

 
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Stéphane Labarthe (Fundación Karisma)

 

Stéphane is an expert at the K+LAB Digital Security and Privacy Laboratory at Fundación Karisma. After studying mathematics, he specialized in cryptology and worked in France as an engineer, auditor, and head of digital security at the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL). His interests also include free software and open knowledge, Indigenous knowledge systems, alternative education, and aïkido.
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Benedikt Bünz (New York University)

Benedikt Bünz is an assistant professor at NYU. He works on cryptography, with a focus on protocols that have applications to blockchains. He has invented several wildly deployed primitives and protocols including Bulletproofs, VDFs and accumulation schemes. He is also the cofounder and chief scientist of Espresso Systems.