Yvo Desmedt received his Ph.D. (Summa cum Laude) from the University of
Leuven, Belgium (1984).  He is presently Chair of Information Communication
Technology at University College London, UK. He is also a courtesy professor
at Florida State University. His interests include cryptography, network
security and computer security. He was program chair of ICITS 2007, co-program
chair of CANS 2005, program chair of PKC 2003, the 2002 ACM Workshop on
Scientific Aspects of Cyber Terrorism and Crypto '94. He is editor-in-chief of
the IET Proceedings of Information Security, editor of the Journal of Computer
Security, of Information Processing Letters and of Advances in Mathematics of
Communications.  He has given invited lectures at several conferences and
workshop in 5 different continents. He has authored over 150 refereed papers,
of which 138 listed on DBLP.