Michiel Van Beirendonck
Co-founder - CEO & CTO at Belfort
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolMichiel Van Beirendonck is a tech founder and researcher combining nine years of hands-on expertise in cryptography, hardware design, and embedded systems as Co-founder, CEO & CTO of Belfort and a PhD researcher at COSIC, KU Leuven. He focuses on hardware acceleration (FPGA/ASIC) for fully homomorphic encryption and zero-knowledge proofs, and on side-channel analysis and countermeasures for lattice-based post-quantum cryptosystems. His industry experience includes internships at Microsoft and Rambus where he worked on security and silicon root-of-trust solutions, bridging academic research with practical silicon and security products. Comfortable moving between low-level circuit design and high-level cryptographic protocols, he brings rare cross-disciplinary fluency that accelerates secure hardware implementations. Outside work he’s an avid mountain biker, kitesurfer and alpine adventurer, a profile that reflects a taste for technical challenges and endurance.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MSc Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science - MSc Electrical and Electronics Engineering at KU LeuvenMaster of Science - MSc SEMP Exchange Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science - MSc SEMP Exchange Electrical and Electronics Engineering at EPFL
Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish
Github Skills (46)
hardware-designs10
verilog10
chisel10
nist9
firrtl9
scala9
homomorphic-encryption9
verification8
fixed-point8
integer-arithmetic8
testing8
rtl-design7
fhe7
cryptography7
formal-verification7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
KULeuven-COSIC/SABER
Sep 2020 - Oct 2021
SABER is a Module-LWR based KEM submitted to NIST
Contributions:61 commits, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 1 year 1 month
saberkemlwrnist
KULeuven-COSIC/fpt-demo
Oct 2023 - Sep 2025
FPT: a Fixed-Point Accelerator for Torus Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 10 months
fixed-pointhomomorphic-encryption
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