Markku-juhani Saarinen
Professor Of Practice (työelämäprofessori, Tietoturva) at Tampere University
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
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Top SchoolMarkku-juhani Saarinen is a Professor of Practice in information security at Tampere University and a Docent in Cryptography with over 25 years of hands-on experience bridging academia and industry. He began as a cryptographer on the SSH2 protocol in 1997 and has since focused on post-quantum and side-channel resistant cryptography, leading PQShield’s first PQC coprocessor and authoring RISC-V cryptography extensions. His career spans research fellowships, embedded and hardware security engineering, and sensitive government consulting, giving him rare expertise across standards, silicon IP, and secure implementation. Equally comfortable designing novel algorithms and shipping semiconductor IP, he combines deep theoretical pedigree (PhD, Royal Holloway) with pragmatic product-driven security engineering based in Tampere, Finland.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Information Security, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Information Security at Royal Holloway, University of LondonMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Scientific Computing (CS and Math), Master of Science (M.Sc.) Scientific Computing (CS and Math) at University of Jyväskylä
English, Finnish
Github Skills (80)
verilog10
simulator10
risc10
crypto10
portable10
api10
readable10
aes10
spike10
ssl10
reference-implementation10
cryptography10
pkix10
animation9
avx9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mjosaarinen/hila5
Sep 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:53 commits, 1 PR, 69 pushes in 6 months
implementationsnistnist-pqcmqttoptimized
r5embed/r5embed
Mar 2019 - Apr 2020
A highly portable, self-contained version of ROUND5 post-quantum algorithms for embedded platforms.
Contributions:137 commits, 6 PRs, 128 pushes in 1 year
post-quantumself-containeddubquantum-computingfsm-library
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