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Summary
Skilled applied mathematician with 13 years research experience with strong communication skills.
Excellent team player. Able to multi-task efficiently.
Professional Experience
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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2005 - present
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Research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Member of the Computer Structures Group
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2005 - present
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Responsible for getting funding for research in security and giving guidance to students in
collaborative projects.
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Received NSF funding for $500,000 and funding sponsored by Quanta Computer Inc.
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Work on a new secure device model called the trusted execution module (TEM) for commodity
general-purpose trusted computing.
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Research private single-database searching for arbitrary Boolean queries, homomorphic public
key encryption, and related lattice-based attacks.
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Improved memory integrity checking mechanisms by applying trusted platform module
(TPM) technology. Introduced new TPM applications; count-limited certificates for managing
access rights and mobile agents. Invited expert TPM Work Group.
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Participated in a project on protein folding.
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Researched key distribution in sensor networks.
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Philips Research
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1996 - 2005
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Visiting scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Member of the Information and System Security group at Philips Research
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2001 - 2005
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Responsible for a productive collaboration between Philips and MIT in the area of security.
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Contributed to system security research which involves both practical and theoretical aspects.
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Introduced physical random functions (PUFs); the startup company Verayo (2005,
http://www.verayo.com/) offers a commercialized version of physical random functions as a
solution for radio frequency identification (RFID), the startup company Intrinsic-ID
(2008, http://www.intrinsic-id.com/) uses physical random functions to generate device-unique
IDs and keys.
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Introduced single chip secure processors, memory integrity checking, visual crypto displays and
practical torus based cryptography.
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Researched information embedding, biometrics, and the modeling and verification of system
security properties.
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Research scientist at Philips Research Laboratories
Member of the Digital Signal Processing group at Philips Research
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1996 - 2001
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Responsible for improving wireless communications and storage applications by applying the
theory of error correcting codes.
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Lead inventor of the error correcting codes which have been accepted in the digital video
recording standard for Blu-ray disc (http://www.blu-raydisc.com/ and http://www.blu-ray.com/,
see also US patents 6,367,049 and 7,103,829, and here).
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Co-authored the paper "Optical Disc System for Digital Video Recording'', Jpn. J. Appl.
Phys. Vol.39, 2000, on Philips' contributions to Blu-ray disc technology, which got reprinted
in the book "Origins and Successors of the Compact Disc Contributions of Philips to Optical
Storage", http://www.ieee.be/milestone.html, published as a result of the IEEE Milestone in
Electrical Engineering and Computing dedicated to Philips for the development of the compact
disc audio player.
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Developed error correcting codes for magnetic and optical storage and flash memory.
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Researched modulation codes for optical storage, convolutional codes and turbo decoding
for broadcast satellite communication and wireless communications, and watermarking and
copyright protection schemes for optical storage.
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Visited and contributed to Philips Consumer Electronics, Vienna, during
September-December 1998.
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Chinese University of Hong Kong
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1996
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Education
Eindhoven University of Technology, PhD in Mathematics,
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December 1997
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Eindhoven University of Technology, Master of Science in Mathematics, Cum Laude,
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April 1993
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Eindhoven University of Technology, Master of Science in Computer Science, Cum Laude,
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August 1991
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Solved in M. van Dijk, ``On the Information Rate of Perfect Secret Sharing Schemes'',
Designs, Codes, and Cryptography 6(2), 143-169, 1995, a 15 year old open problem in
secret sharing showing that shares may need to be unpractically large.
Teaching Experience
Numerous teaching positions at MIT.
Leadership
Started and managed a team at Philips Research focused on security research.
Awards
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NSF Grant 0715680 (Applications and Evolution of Trusted Platform Module Technology)
for $500,000, awarded in 2007.
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ACSAC'02 outstanding student paper award, http://www.acsac.org/.
Languages
Fluent in Dutch and English. Well developed passive understanding of German. Limited in
speaking German.
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