Reihaneh Safavi-Naini

Reihaneh Safavi-Naini is the NSERC/Telus Industrial Research Chair and the Alberta Innovates Strategic Chair in Information Security at the University of Calgary, Canada. She received her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo under Ian F. Blake and her BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran. Before joining Calgary in 2007 she was a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and director of its Telecommunication and Information Technology Research Institute and Centre for Information Security. She co-founded the Institute for Security, Privacy and Information Assurance, leads the Information Security Lab at Calgary, has served as program co-chair of CRYPTO, ASIACRYPT, ASIACCS and Financial Cryptography, and was elected a fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research in 2023. Her research interest is in cryptography and information theory and their applications to information security systems, and she has published over 500 papers.