Scholar
Joppe W. Bos
Google Scholar ID: OhI0sU4AAAAJ
Cryptographic Researcher, NXP Semiconductors, Leuven, Belgium
Citations & Impact
Citations
5,720
H-index
30
i10-index
57
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Co-author of the post-quantum secure CRYSTALS-Kyber key encapsulation mechanism, which has been selected by NIST for standardization; submitter of four PQC algorithm submissions (HAWK, FrodoKEM, Kyber, New Hope), with Kyber being selected as the recommended key encapsulation mechanism and renamed to ML-KEM; received multiple awards including the IACR Test-of-Time Award 2025, Internet 2024 award from ISOC Belgium, and the best paper award at CHES 2016; served on various program committees.
Research Experience
- Currently a cryptographic researcher in the competence center crypto & security at NXP Semiconductors, Leuven, Belgium, where he is the technical lead of the Post-Quantum Cryptography team and the manager of the Crypto Concepts team. Previously, he was a post-doctoral researcher in the Cryptography Research Group at Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA.
Education
- PhD obtained in 2012 from the Laboratory for Cryptologic Algorithms at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, under the supervision of Prof. Arjen Lenstra.
Background
- Cryptographic researcher and technical director, with research interests in computational number theory and high-performance arithmetic as used in (post-quantum) public-key cryptography.
Miscellany
- Erdös Number: 2; Bacon Number: 5; Erdös-Bacon Number: 7.
Co-authors