Emad Beni
Research Scientist at Nokia Bell Labs
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolEmad Beni is a research scientist and applied cryptographer with 18 years of experience designing secure, resilient, data-intensive systems, currently splitting research roles between Nokia Bell Labs and imec-COSIC at KU Leuven. He focuses on making engineering tradeoffs that prioritize resilience—fault tolerance, security, and privacy—even at the cost of raw efficiency, and works on MPC, ZK proofs and fully homomorphic encryption to enable trusted computation on encrypted data. His background spans practical software engineering (cloud infrastructure, JavaEE, distributed systems) and deep academic research from a PhD in Computer Science, giving him rare fluency across deployment, operational concerns, and cryptographic protocol design. Based in Leuven, he combines hands-on system-building (including OpenStack administration and cloud migrations) with outreach and industry collaboration to move advanced primitives toward real-world use. An uncommon commitment to ethics in engineering underpins his agenda: building systems society can trust rather than merely faster systems.
18 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of LeuvenBachelor's degree, Computer Hardware Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Hardware Engineering at University of IsfahanMaster's degree, Computer Networks and Distributed Systems, Master's degree, Computer Networks and Distributed Systems at Universiteit Antwerpen
English, Persian, Dutch, Polish
Github Skills (114)
windows10
cmake10
chat10
encryption10
apple-silicon10
linux10
matlab10
latency10
audio10
voice10
cross-platform10
voip10
aircraft10
macos10
aviation10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hbeni/fgcom-mumble
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
A (flightsim) radio communication simulation based on mumble
Contributions:26 releases, 6 reviews, 657 commits in 2 years 6 months
atcradio-simulationwindowsmumbleatc-pie
hbeni/therionsurface2survex
Mar 2020 - Apr 2021
Convert therion (or GDAL) surface meshes to survex (or therion) surface legs.
Contributions:7 releases, 40 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 1 month
meshessurfacegdaltherioncave
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