Curriculum vitae in Poscript and PDF

Research Interests

• Cryptography and information security in general
• Provable security in particular

Education

• Ph.D. in applied sciences, option computer science
  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  Advisors: Frank Piessens and Bart De Decker, May 2004
• Burgerlijk ingenieur (cf. MSE) in computer science, summa cum laude
  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, July 2000

Work Experience

• Postdoctoral researcher, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, October 2004 - Present
  • Since Oct 2005: Postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)
  • Oct 2005 - Oct 2006: Visiting postdoctoral researcher at Ecole Normale Superieure
• Doctoral researcher, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2000 – 2004
  • Funded by Research Assistantship from the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)
  • Jan - Sep 2002, July - Oct 2003, and July - Sep 2004: Visiting researcher at University of California, San Diego, working with Mihir Bellare on various topics in provably secure cryptography.

Professional Activities

• Program committee membership
  • Eurocrypt 2008
  • Security of Information and Networks (SIN) 2007
  • Information Security Conference (ISC) 2007
  • Indocrypt 2006
  • Mycrypt 2005
  • Workshop on Information Security and Application (WISA) 2005
• Editorial board membership
  • Cryptology and Information Security Series
• External reviewer
  • Conferences including Crypto, Eurocrypt, Asiacrypt, Theory of Cryptography Conference
  • Journals including Journal of Cryptology; ACM Computing Surveys; IEEE Transactions on Information Theory; ACM Transactions on Information and System Security; Designs, Codes and Cryptography
• Membership
  • International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR)

Teaching Experience

• Co-lecturer
  • Advanced methods in cryptography, spring 2007
  • KVIV course module on secure software engineering, fall 2000
• Teaching assistant
  • Secure software engineering, 2000 - 2004
  • Operating systems, 2000, 2003
• Guidance of Master theses
  • Various topics in security and cryptography, 2001 - 2004

Awards and Fellowships

• Postdoctoral fellow of Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), Oct 2005 - Present
• Research assistant of Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), 2000 – 2004
• IBM Belgium Awards for Informatics, winner, 2001
• KVIV Thesis Award, laureate, 2000
• Krypton Thesis Award, third prize, 2000

Personal Information

• Born in Maasmechelen, Belgium, on January 28, 1978
• Citizen of Belgium
• Spoken languages: Dutch (native), English (fluent), French (fluent), German (notion) and Spanish (notion)

References

• Prof. Mihir Bellare
  Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of California at San Diego
  9500 Gilman Drive
  La Jolla, CA 92093-0114, USA
  Phone: +1-858-534-4544
  Email:
• Prof. Frank Piessens
  Departement Computerwetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  Celestijnenlaan 200A
  B-3001 Heverlee-Leuven, Belgium
  Phone: +32-16-32 76 03
  Email:
• Prof. Bart Preneel
  ESAT-COSIC, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  Kasteelpark Arenberg 10
  B-3001 Heverlee-Leuven, Belgium
  Phone: +32-16-32 11 48
  Email: