Thijs Laarhoven
Principal Cryptographer at NXP Semiconductors
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolThijs Laarhoven is a principal cryptographer with a decade of focused expertise in lattice-based, post-quantum cryptography, blending deep theoretical insight with practical security evaluation. He pioneered faster lattice-sieving exponents used industry-wide for parameter selection and has repeatedly improved and analyzed algorithms that both attack and defend lattice schemes. His career spans academia and industry—PhD and postdoc work at Eindhoven, a postdoc at IBM Zurich, a visiting stint at Berkeley, research at TNO, and current principal role at NXP—demonstrating an ability to translate cutting-edge research into real-world cryptographic guidance. Funded by an NWO Veni grant, he pursues an independent research agenda that connects nearest-neighbor search techniques with cryptographic hardness. Colleagues know him for combining strong analytical and programming skills with a practical bent, often revealing limits of algorithms as evidence for secure parameter choices. Based in Eindhoven, he quietly influences global post-quantum standards through measurable advances in both attack and defense methods.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Industrial and Applied Mathematics at Eindhoven University of TechnologyAtheneum, Atheneum at Sondervick College
Dutch, German, English, French
Github Skills (57)
tournament10
typescript10
android-sdk10
fixed-point10
scala10
multiprecision10
chess10
interval-arithmetic10
nodejs10
functional-programming10
lichess10
mongodb10
lattice9
shadow9
stockfish9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tmmlaarhoven/lichess
Jun 2021 - Apr 2024
Contributions:344 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
tmmlaarhoven/tmmlaarhoven.github.io
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:1898 commits, 2 PRs, 1868 pushes in 8 months
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