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 (76)
verilog10
vhdl10
asic10
fpga10
eda10
scala10
hardware10
chisel10
integer9
firrtl9
boolean9
fhe9
nist9
homomorphic-encryption9
intervals8
Programming languages (11)
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
mvanbeirendonck/mvanbeirendonck.github.io
Aug 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:3 PRs, 13 pushes in 7 months
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