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About me

Tancrède Lepoint is a cryptography engineer at Apple. Previously, he worked at Google and SRI International. His research interests include cryptography, network security, secure implementation, and privacy, with a focus on post-quantum cryptography, fully homomorphic encryption, cryptographic multilinear maps and obfuscation.

He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from École Normale Supérieure and University of Luxembourg, a M.Sc. and a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Université Joseph Fourier, France.

Tancrède is a director of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (2018-2020) and a co-editor of the Cryptology ePrint Archive since August 2016.

Other news

• Aug. 2021: Our preprint Private Join and Compute from PIR with Default has been accepted for publication at Asiacrypt 2021, and On the (in)security of ROS has received the best paper award at Eurocrypt 2021.
• Jun. 2021: Our preprint Advances and Open Problems in Federated Learning is now published in Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning, Volume 14.
• May 2021: Our preprint Communication-Computation Trade-offs in PIR has been accepted for publication at Usenix 2021.
• Mar. 2021: I am now working at Apple Inc.!
• Feb. 2021: Our paper On the (in)security of ROS has been accepted for publication at Eurocrypt 2021.
• Nov. 2020: Thank you for electing me as Director of the IACR for 2021-2023!

Program committees

• 2022: USENIX SECURITY.
• 2021: CHES, USENIX SECURITY, IEEE S&P, CT-RSA.
• 2020: CHES, USENIX SECURITY, EUROCRYPT, CT-RSA.
• 2019: SSR, USENIX SECURITY, PKC, CT-RSA.
• 2018: SSR, WAHC, SCN, CHES, CRYPTO, AFRICACRYPT, COSADE, PQCRYPTO, CT-RSA.
• 2017: INDOCRYPT, CANS, CHES, PQCRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, WAHC, CT-RSA.
• 2016: CHES, ICITS, WAHC.
• 2015: CANS, SECICT, ACNS, ACISP, WAHC.