Affiliation: Radboud University, Nijmegen
Keywords: Security, artificial intelligence, security of AI, cryptography, hardware security
Full profile: Stjepan Picek is an associate professor at Radboud University, The Netherlands. His research interests are security/cryptography, machine learning, and evolutionary computation. Prior to the associate professor position, dr. Picek was an assistant professor at TU Delft, and a postdoctoral researcher at MIT, USA and KU Leuven, Belgium. Dr. Picek finished his PhD in 2015 with a topic on cryptology and evolutionary computation techniques. He also has several years of experience working in industry and government. Up to now, dr. Picek has given more than 50 invited talks and published more than 180 refereed papers.
He is a program committee member and reviewer for a number of conferences and journals, and a member of several professional societies. His work has been featured in the mainstream media and popular technology blogs. He received the Vera Johanides Award for young scientists in 2018, the Rikard Podhorsky Award for outstanding scientific contributions in 2023 (both awards by the Croatian Academy of Engineering), and the IEEE Croatia section award for outstanding engineering contributions in 2023. Dr. Picek received several best paper awards, most recently the NDSS 2023 Distinguished Paper Award. Dr. Picek is a senior member of IEEE and associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, International Journal of Information Security, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. He is a member of ELLIS and a Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe.