CRYPTOGRAPHY AND BLOCKCHAIN GROUP

Academic degrees:
 

• Full professor title (2019) awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland 

• Habilitation (2012) from the University of Warsaw

• PhD (2001) from Aarhus University

• MSc (1996) from the University of Warsaw

Current position:
 

• professor, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw 

 

Previously:
 

• adiunkt naukowy (research assistant professor), Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw (12.2010 - 10.2013)

• ricercatore (assistant professor), Department of Computer Science, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
  (1.2008 - 11.2010)

• a Marie-Curie Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, University of Rome “La Sapienza”(7.2006 – 12.2007)

• a post-doc at the Institute for Informatics and Telematics, Italian National Research Council in Pisa (10.2005 – 6.2006)

• an assistant professor in the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (12.2004 – 9.2005)

• an assistant professor, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw  (10.2002 – 11.2004)

• a post-doc in the Information Security and Cryptography Research Group, ETH Zurich (3.2001 – 8.2002)

• a PhD student in the Cryptology Group, BRICS Phd School, Aarhus University (PhD in 1.2001)

• a student of computer science at the University of Warsaw (MSc in 9.1996)

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Longer research visits:

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• Visiting Scientist at Simons Institute, UC Berkeley, USA (10.2019 -- 11.2019)

• Visiting Scientist at Simons Institute, UC Berkeley, USA (7.2015 -- 8.2015)

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PC chair:

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• Eurocrypt 2022 (co-chair together with Orr Dunkelman)

• Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC) 2018 (co-chair together with Amos Beimel)
   

Current editorial board membership:  Information and Computation  (from 2021)

Past editorial board membership: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

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Recent PC membership: Theory of Cryptography Conference, TCC 2024
 

All PC membership:  ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT 2020),  ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2016, 2021, 2023), ASIACRYPT (2003, 2008, 2009), BalkanCryptSec 2014,  Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES 2021), Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks (SCN 2012, 2014),  CRYPTO 2013,  4th Crypto Valley Conference 2021, EUROCRYPT (2007, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021),  Financial Cryptography and Data Security (2008, 2009, 2010, 2022),  Information-Theoretic Cryptography (2020), INSCRYPT 2008.  International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2007, 2008, 2012, 2015),  International Conference on Information Theoretic Security (ICITS 2007, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2016),  International Symposium on Cyber Security Cryptology and Machine Learning (CSCML 2022), LATINCRYPT 2012, Public-Key Cryptography (PKC 2011, 2012), Stanford Blockchain Conference (2020), Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC 2006, 2009, 2020),  Workshop on Bitcoin Research (2015, 2017).

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Grant panel membership: European Coordinated Research on Long-term Challenges in Information and Communication Sciences & Technologies ERA-NET (CHIST-ERA, 2014), Foundation for Polish Science (Team and Team Tech grants, 2018), European Research Council (Consolidator Grant, 2023).

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Other Responsibilities:

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• Organizer of the Second IACR School on Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning 2023 at the IDEAS NCBR Institute, Warsaw, Poland,

• Member of the TrustChain Executive Advisory Board (2023 - )

• Member of the Council of the Polish National Science Centre for the 2021-2024 term

• Co-coordinator of the  Combinatorics and Cryptology session at the Jubilee Congress for the 100th anniversary of the Polish Mathematical Society, September 2019, Cracow,

• General chair of TCC 2015

• Organizer of the Workshop on Leakage, Tampering and Viruses 201, Warsaw.

Grants: FNP Nicolaus Copernicus Polish-German Research Award Subsidy (2020 - 2023), NCN Opus Grants: 2014/13/B/ST6/03540 (2015 - 2019) and 2019/35/B/ST6/04138 (2020 - 2024),  ERC Advanced Grant PROCONTRA-885666 (2020-25), Ethereum Foundation grant (2018 - 2020), FNP Team grant TEAM/2016-1/4 (2016-19),  FNP Welcome grant WELCOME/2010-4/2 (2011-15), ERC starting grant CNTM-207908 (2008-13), Marie-Curie grant 024300-CRYPTOSENSORS (2006-07)

Awards and achievements:

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• Elected to be a member of the Warsaw Scientific Society,

• First Degree Individual Award from the Rector of the University of Warsaw 2020,

• Keynote speaker at the Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES) 2020

• Nicolaus Copernicus Polish-German Research Award 2020 (together with prof. Sebastian Faust),

• ERC Advanced Grant (the 2019 call),

• ERC Starting Grant (the 2007 call),

• Best Paper Award at Eurocrypt 2014,

• Best Paper Award at IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2014, 

• Kazimierz Bartel Award 2016,

• Silver Medal of the University of Warsaw for the University 200 years Anniversary (2016)

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Membership in professional societies:

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• Association of ERC Grantees,

• Association of the Foundation for Polish Science Scholars,

• International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR),

• Warsaw Scientific Society.
   

Short bio (in English and in Polish): [link]

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Full CV: [link]

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Publications: [link]

 

Selected talks: [link]

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Google Scholar ID: : VgiXQ2YAAAAJ

ORCID ID:  0000-0002-6914-6425

ResearchGate ID: Stefan-Dziembowski 

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