Short bio:
Olivier Blazy is an Associate Professor at the University of Limoges in France. He did his Ph.D. in 2012 in the Ecole Normale Supérieure crypto group, on proofs of knowledge and their application to blind signatures and authenticated key exchange. He spent 2 years in the “Foundation of Cryptography” group at the Ruhr-University in Bochum (Germany) where he worked in the area of provable tight security. Since then, he leads the master level security program in Limoges, and conducts research on the areas of implicit cryptography, identity-based communications and code-based cryptography to propose post-quantum cryptosystems. He is involved in several french/european project on cryptography and security of communications, he is the lead PI of an ANR grant (French National grant) named “IdFix” on IDentity-based cryptography For Information and eXchange. He has proposed 6 different candidates for the NIST post quantum standardisation process. 2 of which (BIKE, HQC) are still in the running in the final stage. Since September 1st, he is co-supervising the French work-group on Codes and Cryptography.