Jan Camenisch

Jan Camenisch received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering Science at ETH Zurich in 1993 and Ph.D. in 1998 ("Group Signatures Schemes and Payment Systems Based on the Discrete Logarithm Problem"). 1998-1999 Research Assistant Professor in Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Since 1999 Research Staff Member at IBM Zurich and working in cryptography and network security. Chair of a few and member of numerous scientific program committees. Technical leader of the EU projects PRIME (Privacy and Identity management for Europe) www.prime-project.eu and PrimeLife (www.primelife.eu). Author of more than 70 research papers in the area of cryptography and privacy protection. Co-Inventor of IBM Identity Mixer (anonymous credentials) technology. Research interests: cryptographic protocols, in particular those supporting privacy and anonymity; privacy and identity management. For more information see http://www.zurich.ibm.com/~jca.