Cryptography is also a community project.
Editorial work, invited lectures, conferences, schools, and professional service have been a substantial part of my academic life, especially across IACR and the Latin American cryptography community.
Steering Committee, Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC)
Steering-committee service for the SAC conference series.
Steering Committee, CHES
Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems.
Program Co-Chair, Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC)
University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Program Co-Chair, AFRICACRYPT
Tunisia.
General Chair, CRYPTO
45th Annual International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara.
Co-Editor-in-Chief, TCHES
IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems.
IACR Board of Directors
Board service for the International Association for Cryptologic Research.
Co-founder, LATINCRYPT & ASCrypto
General Chair of the inaugural LATINCRYPT 2010 in Puebla and long-term contributor to cryptography conferences and schools in Latin America.
Founding professor, CINVESTAV Computer Science Department
One of eleven professors who submitted the proposal establishing the independent Department of Computer Science.
ECC 2012Querétaro, México · General Co-Chair
A regional cryptography community with an international reach
I co-founded the International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America (LATINCRYPT) and the Advanced School on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America (ASCrypto).
Selected invited lectures
Recent invited talks from my CV, spanning isogeny-based cryptography, the post-quantum transition, elliptic curves, and implementation.
Introduction to Isogeny-based cryptography
Coloquio Nacional de Códigos y Criptografía · June 26, 2025.
The quest for reliable post-quantum cryptography
Ciberseguridad 2024 · October 15, 2024.
A state-of-the-art review of key-exchange isogeny-based protocols
Technology Innovation Institute · Abu Dhabi, UAE · March 11, 2021.
Pre-quantum and post-quantum variants of the Diffie–Hellman protocol
7th International Conference on Mathematics and Computing · Shibpur, India · March 5, 2021.
How long can we safely use pre-quantum ECC?
Opening remarks for the ECC 2020 third discussion panel · October 29, 2020.
On Vélu’s new formulae and their applications to CSIDH and B-SIDH constant-time implementations
CHES 2020 Rump Session · September 16, 2020.
A longer record of service
Past roles include associate editorships, program committees, and conference leadership across cryptographic engineering, computer arithmetic, and information security.
Journal service
Past editorial roles include Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Journal of Universal Computer Science, and Journal of VLSI.
Program leadership
Chair and co-chair roles have included CHES/TCHES, LATIN, LATINCRYPT, WAIFI, AFRICACRYPT, SAC, and cryptology schools.
Latin American cryptography
Long-term work building conferences, schools, collaborations, and research networks across Latin America.