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This talk will give an overview of post-quantum encryption and digital signature primitives recently standardized by NIST to which a lot of governments and organizations are currently transitioning. The session will also give a brief description of additional algorithms that are currently in the pipeline at NIST and talk about what kind of challenges one faces when trying to migrate more complex protocols to quantum-safe.

Dr. Vadim Lyubashevsky is a Principal Research Scientist and manager of the Foundational Cryptography group at IBM Research in Zurich, where he has worked since 2015. Prior to this, he was a researcher in the cryptography group at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and before that, a post doc in the Foundations of Computing group at Tel Aviv University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 2008.

His main research focus is on designing efficient quantum-safe cryptographic protocols based on the hardness of lattice problems. He has worked on the foundations of practical lattice encryption, digital signatures, and is currently interested in zero knowledge proofs and real-world privacy preserving primitives. A lot of his research has been funded by the ERC (European Research Commission) starting and consolidator grants, and some past works have received IACR Test-of-Time awards at Asiacrypt 2024 and Eurocrypt 2025. He co-led the CRYSTALS team which produced the CRYSTALS-Kyber (ML-KEM) and the CRYSTALS-Dilithium (ML-DSA) NIST standards for post-quantum encryption and digital signatures.