Nigel Smart's Short CVs
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CV (300 Words, 1800 Characters)
Smart received a BSc degree from the University of Reading in 1989 and a PhD degree from the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1992. Smart proceeded to work as a research fellow at the University of Kent, the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Cardiff University until 1995. From 1995 to 1997, he was a lecturer at the University of Kent, and then spent three years at Hewlett-Packard from 1997 to 2000. From 2000 to 2017 he was at the University of Bristol, where he founded the cryptology research group. From 2018 he has been based in the COSIC group at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where he is now a part-time Professor. He spends most of his time advising start-up companies; such as Zama, Optalysys, DFNS, Cosmian, Confidencial, and Astran.
Smart held a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award (2008-2013), and two ERC Advanced Grant (2011-2016 and 2016-2021). He was a director of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (2012-2014), and was Vice President for the period 2014-2016. In 2016 he was named as a Fellow of the IACR.
Smart carries out research on a wide variety of topics in cryptography. Smart is known for his work in elliptic curve cryptography. His work with Gentry and Halevi on performing the first large calculation using Fully Homomorphic Encryption won the IBM Pat Goldberg Best Paper Award for 2012. In the last decade he has worked on making fully homomorphic encryption and secure multiparty computation practical.
In addition to his three years at HP Laboratories, Smart was a founder of the startup Identum, which was bought by Trend Micro in 2008. In 2013 he formed, with Yehuda Lindell, Unbound Security, which was sold to Coinbase in 2022. He is also the co-founder, along with Kenny Paterson, of the Real World Cryptography conference series.
CV (150 Words, 800 Characters)
Smart received a BSc degree from the University of Reading in 1989 and a PhD degree from the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1992. Smart spent three years at Hewlett-Packard from 1997 to 2000. From 2000 to 2017 he was at the University of Bristol. From 2018 he has been based in the COSIC group at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; where he is a part-time Professor.
Smart has held a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award, and two ERC Advanced Grant. He was Vice President of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (2014-2016). In 2016 he was named as a Fellow of the IACR.
Smart was a founder of the startup Identum, which was bought by Trend Micro in 2008, and was co-founder of Unbound Security, which was sold to Coinbase in 2022.
He is also the co-founder, along with Kenny Paterson, of the Real World Cryptography conference series.
CV (50 Words, 300 Characters)
Smart is a part-time professor in the COSIC group at the KU Leuven. He held two ERC Advanced grants. He was Vice President of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (2014-2016) and is a Fellow of the IACR. He was co-founder of Unbound Security and the Real World Cryptography conference.