NTRU Cryptosystems has built a world-class R&D Team. They are:
- Jeffrey Hoffstein, Ph.D., co-VP, Research and Founder
- Nick Howgrave-Graham, Ph.D., Senior Cryptographer
- Jill Pipher, Ph.D., Director of Research and Founder
- Joseph Silverman, Ph.D., co-VP, Research and Founder
- William Whyte, Ph.D., Director of Cryptographic Research
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Jeffrey Hoffstein, Ph.D., co-VP, Research and Founder
Jeff is a co-inventor of the NTRU public key cryptographic system, and
a Professor of Mathematics at Brown University. Dr. Hoffstein has
published more than 60 papers on the subjects of number theory and
cryptography, and is the recipient of numerous National Science
Foundation grants. Jeff has held academic positions at the University
of Rochester, IAS and Göttingen University in Germany. He holds a
B.A. from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from MIT.
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Nick Howgrave-Graham, Ph.D.
Nick is the Senior Cryptographer at NTRU. Whilst at NTRU he has
developed the most effective strategy known to attack the NTRU
technology, and has helped create NTRU parameters safe from his
attack. He has published more than 20 papers on cryptography and
number theory. He is co-inventor and patent holder of the NTRU
signature algorithm. In addition to his research and peer-reviewing,
he contributes to the cryptographic community both by invited lectures
(IPAM Contemporary Methods in Cryptography, AMS Short Course on
Cryptography) and in program committees (ACNS 2009, Eurocrypt 2009,
CT-RSA 2009). Nick co-developed the NTRU process for threat model
analyses, and is heavily involved with the security consultancy that
NTRU provides. Before coming to NTRU, he worked for two years at the
IBM, Yorktown Heights Research Lab in New York. He holds a B.A. from
the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and both an M.Sc. and Ph.D. from
the University of Bath, UK
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Jill Pipher, Ph.D., Director of Research and Founder
Jill is a co-inventor of the NTRU public key cryptographic system, and
a Professor of Mathematics at Brown University. She received the Sloan
Foundation Fellowship in 1989, the Presidential Young Investigator
Award in 1990 and has received numerous grants from the National
Science Foundation. In addition to cryptography, her research
interests include harmonic analysis, probability and partial
differential equations. She has published over 40 articles on analysis
and cryptography, and taught at the University of Chicago before
coming to Brown University. Jill holds a B.A. and Ph.D. from UCLA.
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Joseph Silverman, Ph.D., co-VP, Research and Founder
Joe is a co-inventor of the NTRU public key cryptographic system. A
Professor of Mathematics at Brown University since 1988, Joe has also
taught at MIT, Boston University and Universite de Paris VII. He is
the author of seven book on topics including cryptography, elliptic
curves, Diophantine geometry and number theory, and and he has
published more than 100 articles on number theory, arithmetic
geometry, arithmetic dynamics, and cryptography. Joe was awarded a
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship 1998-1999, an American Mathematical
Society Steele Prize in 1998, and a Sloan Foundation Fellowship 1987
to 1991, and he has also received numerous grants from the National
Science Foundation and the National Security Agency. He holds a
B.S. from Brown University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
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William Whyte, Ph.D., CTO
William is CTO of NTRU Cryptosystems with responsibility for the
company's activities in consulting, vehicular communications security,
and cryptographic research. Before joining NTRU, he was Senior
Cryptographer with Baltimore Technologies in Dublin, Ireland. He is
chair of the IEEE 1363 Working Group for new standards in public key
cryptography and has served as technical editor of two published IEEE
standards, IEEE Std 1363.1-2008 and IEEE Std 1609.2-2006. He holds a
D. Phil from Oxford University on Statistical Mechanics of Neural
Networks and a B.A. from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. His
research interests include lattice-based cryptography and all aspects
of secure vehicular communications.
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