Dr. Jan Camenisch is a Principal Research Staff Member at IBM Research – Zurich and leads the Privacy & Cryptography research team. He is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and an IEEE Fellow. He is a member scientist in the area of privacy and cryptography, has published over 100 widely cited papers, and has received a number of awards for his work. Jan is also a co-inventor of Identity Mixer, a unique cryptographic protocol suite for privacy-preserving authentication and transfer of certified attributes. Jan previously led the FP7 European research consortia PRIME and PrimeLife, and he and his team continue to participate in many other projects including ABC4Trust, AU2EU, and Witdom. By “inventing and using cryptography, I try to regain the fading privacy and security of our increasingly electronic society.”
