Jan Camenisch

Jan Leonhard Camenisch is a Swiss research scientist in cryptography and privacy and is currently the CTO of DFINITY. He previously worked at IBM Research – Zurich, Switzerland and has published over 100 widely cited scientific articles and holds more than 70 U.S. patents.

Jan Camenisch
Alma materETH Zurich
Occupation(s)Cryptographer, Computer Scientist, CTO
EmployerDFINITY
Known for
  • Identity Mixer
  • Direct Anonymous Attestation (DAA)
Awards
  • IACR Fellow
  • IEEE Fellow
  • ACM Fellow
  • ACM SIGSAC outstanding innovation award
  • IEEE computer society technical achievement award
  • IFIP Kristian Beckman award
  • Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography

Camenisch received an engineer's degree in electrical engineering in 1993 and a Ph.D. in computer science in 1998, both from ETH Zurich. He was an assistant professor in computer science at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, before joining the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in 1999. Camenisch was born in the small Swiss village of Langwies.

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