iacr13

I am running for Director of the IACR in the 2013 elections.

My short statement.

I have served the IACR since 1997 as director, vice-president and president. I would like to contribute my experience to further develop the IACR, with as key points maintaining scientific quality, open availability of scientific results, supporting students and exploring how our publications and events can be gradually improved.

Below my longer statement.

The IACR is a community with a rich history and a promising future. I have joined the IACR in 1989 and I have attended 25 Eurocrypts and Cryptos, 10 of the past 11 Asiacrypts, 19 FSEs, and 9 CHES conferences. I had the pleasure to serve on the IACR Board since 1997 as Director, Vice-President and President; I have attended all Board of Directors meetings in the last 17 years. Based on my track record, I would like to receive your support to serve the IACR and the community as Director.

We should focus on:
    1) scientific quality of conferences and publications,
    2) making further progress towards open access publishing,
    3) enhancing international and student participation,
    4) protecting free research in cryptology,
    5) maintaining strong links between academic and industrial research.

Service:

program chair: CHES 2011, Eurocrypt 2000, FSE 1994

general chair: FSE 2009, FSE 1994

member of Editorial Board Journal of Cryptology (1997-2012)

program committee member of 50 IACR Conferences and Workshops

member of FSE and CHES steering committees

observer in Asiacrypt steering committee since 2004

Professional activities:

in charge of research group COSIC
project manager of ECRYPT: European Network of Excellence on Cryptography (2004-2013)
project co-manager of BCRYPT: Belgian Fundamental Reseach Network on Cryptology and Information Security (2007-2012)
ex-project manager of STORK: Roadmap Project on Cryptology Research (2002-2003)

I am willing to work with the community in order to explore how we can improve our publication models to better serve the interest of our members. IACR has been conservative and careful in adopting changes, and I see this as a good thing. We should try to move forward in a way that we keep the strong elements of our current approach and benefit from the innovations offered by the web. In encourage you to join the ongoing debate .

The IACR has a long term agenda to enhance international participation and to enable researchers in all continents to benefit from and contribute to our community. We should support new initiatives in this direction and think of new ways to reach out to those who are currently not able to participate.

Bart Preneel