Yvo Desmedt received his Ph.D. (Summa cum Laude) from the University of
Leuven, Belgium (1984).  At present he is Jonsson Distinguished Professor
at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has held visiting
appointments at AIST (Japan), Macquarie University (Australia), Technion
(Israel), Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), Universite de Montreal
(Canada), University of Karlsruhe (Germany), etc. He is an (associate) editor
of The Journal of Computer Security.  He is also the
Editor-in-chief of IET Information Security.  He was program chair of Crypto
1994, the ACM workshop on Scientific Aspects of Cyber Terrorism 2002, PKC
2003, ICITS 2007, and co-program chair of CANS 2005. He was an invited speaker
at conferences and workshop in 5 continents. He has authored over 200 refereed
papers, of which 185 listed on DBLP. He is a Fellow of the International
Association of Cryptologic 
Research (IACR), since 2010.