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* designs inclusive trustworthy and dependable communication and computation systems that seek to protect the legitimate interests of all stakeholders in multi-jurisdiction, multi-stakeholder Internet-scale environments.* a member of the Program Committee of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's 8th Annual Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop (2012), an event co-sponsored by the US National Nuclear Security Administration.* participated in "International Conference on Nuclear Threats and Security" (2012) workshop co-sponsored by WAAS, ELN and NATO* co-authored "Increasing Block Sizes Using Feistel Networks" with Prof. Jacques Patarin and Joana Treger (LNCS, Springer, 2012). * participated in the by-invitation only US Federal NITRD - National Cyber Leap Year Summit in August 2009. Six of my proposals published in the Summit proceedings. * presented twice on global-scale identity management (IdM) and cryptographic key management (CKM) at the 2010 ORNL - CSIIRW.* presented twice on IdM and CKM at the IEEE Key Management Summit in 2010.* co-author of a 157 page comment on the NIST draft framework for CKM Design Framework (SP 800-130) in 2010. Our submission represented more than 90% of the feedback to NIST. * submitted 3 comprehensive postings to the draft US NSTIC (2010)* co-authored 6 submissions to the EU Think-Trust call for feedback on future research for the EC (2010). * co-authored a 56-page submission to European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) in response to their call for scenario proposals on emerging and future risks.* co-author of more than 18 articles published in the Malta Independent newspaper and republished and commented on in world leading security blogs and expert groups. See publications below.* presented 3 consecutive years at CARTES in Paris as a speaker on information security (2007-2009)* co-author of a cipher submitted to the FP7 ECRYPT eStream cipher competition (2005-2007).

Listed skills include Information Security, Computer Security, Identity Management, Cryptography, and 42 others.

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  Chief Technical Officer

  Synaptic Laboratories Ltd

  2003 - Present - The Country Of Georgia

  I am the architect of Synaptic Labs' globally scalable, universally trustworthy and dependable, communication and computation vision. See the Cyber Projects Roadmap website above to learn more about this vision. Find several of Synaptic Labs' publications listed below.