Philipp Jovanovic
Research Scientist at UCL
Switzerland
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Top SchoolPhilipp Jovanovic is a research scientist and Full Professor of Information Security at UCL with over a decade of experience in applied cryptography, decentralized systems, cryptocurrencies, and privacy-enhancing technologies. He holds a PhD in cryptography from Universität Passau (Dissertation Award 2016) and completed a postdoc at EPFL's DEDIS lab, bridging rigorous academic research with practical system design. Philipp has authored 45+ papers with 5,000+ citations and earned top awards including a Best Paper at IEEE S&P 2018, reflecting research that influences both theory and practice. He co-founded ZKV, advises blockchain projects like cLabs and DFINITY, and contributes to influential open-source crypto tooling—e.g., improving security in the Go kyber library by hardening dependencies and test coverage. Currently splitting his time between UCL and Mysten Labs, he seeks research problems with direct real-world impact, especially those that make cryptographic primitives more deployable. Colleagues value him for combining deep mathematical insight with hands-on engineering to move privacy and crypto from papers into production.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat., Cryptology, Dr. rer. nat., Cryptology at Universität Passau
French, German, English, Latin
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Github Skills (6)
crypt10
crypto10
go10
openssl10
cryptography10
security10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dedis/kyber
Nov 2015 - Sep 2018
Advanced crypto library for the Go language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:93 commits, 41 PRs, 130 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Philipp primarily focused on improving the security and functionality of the cryptographic library. Their commits added example tests for comparing signatures generated by different crypto implementations (NIST vs. OpenSSL) and removed potentially insecure dependencies. The user also added experimental build flags to the OpenSSL package, indicating an attempt to enable or test experimental features.
crypto-librarygolangcryptographycryptanalysiscrypto
norx/node
May 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:24 commits in 6 months
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