HELENA HANDSCHUH is a Security Technologies Fellow at Rambus, Inc. Her research and responsibilities include: managing the foundational security technologies team in charge of research in crypto and post-quantum crypto; research in power analysis and side-channel attacks and countermeasures; building prototypes and showcasing technology to customers, partners, and events; security architecture for new products and services; prototyping of new products and security standardization. She was formerly a Technical Director of Cryptography Research, Inc. (part of Rambus), and Chief Technology Officer at Intrinsic-ID. She was also the manager of the Applied Cryptography and Security Group and manager of the Card Application Security team at Gemplus (now Gemalto). She authored more than 50 peer-reviewed papers and holds 20+ patents in the areas of security and cryptography. Dr. Handschuh earned an M.S. in networks and communication engineering from the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees (ENSTA, Paris), an M.S. in algorithms and cryptography from the Ecole Polytechnique, and a Ph.D. in cryptography from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST, Paris).
