ACISP 2011 Keynote Speakers
Professor Claude Carlet
Universite Paris, 8
On Known and New Differentially Uniform Functions
Claude Carlet is a full professor in Mathematics at the University of Paris 8 in France. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the new journal Cryptography and Communications: Discrete Structures, Boolean Functions and Sequences. He was also Associate Editor for Coding Theory for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from March 2002 until March 2005. Six PhD students defended their theses under his supervision and guidance.
Claude Carlet has written or co-written more than 42 journal papers, 47 conference papers and 7 books and book chapters. His fields of interest include cryptography, coding and algebraic constructions in coding and cryptography.
Claude Carlet has been committee member or chairman of numerous international conferences and workshops, amongst them the Workshop on Coding and Cryptography (WCC), International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), International Conference on Sequences and their Applications (SETA), Asiacrypt (an IACR conference) and Fast Software Encryption.
Mr. Nick Ellsmore
STRATSEC (a BAE Systems Company)
The Cyber-Security Landscape, 2011-2015, and the Need to Innovate
Nick Ellsmore is one of Australia's leading experts on information security strategy and governance, and is a challenging and thought-provoking speaker on the global cyber security landscape. He was an Australian delegate to the APEC TEL Security & Prosperity Steering Group at meetings in Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Canada, the Philippines, Japan and Chile, advising the forum on emerging IT security threats. He is a Graduate of the AICD Company Directors' Course, helped develop AS 8015, the Australian standard for ICT Governance, and is a member of the NATA Accreditation Advisory Committee for Software Testing.
Nick was founder of SIFT Information Security Services, one of Australia's leading specialist information security consulting firms, which became a part of stratsec in 2009, which in turn was acquired by BAE Systems Australia in 2011. Nick is currently Head of Business Development for stratsec, and previously was Chief Technical Officer and Head of Delivery. Nick is also a Director and Treasurer of the Internet Industry Association (IIA), elected in 2010.