Bell Labs

One-line Bio: I received Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto.
My advisors were Ian F. Blake and Charles Rackoff.
My research was (and is) in formal cryptography and systems security. My thesis is titled "Secure Two-Party Computation and Communication."

Brief Bio: Vladimir Kolesnikov is a Member of Technical Staff in Bell Labs' Enabling Computing Technologies domain in Murray Hill, NJ. He holds BS degree in Computational Mathematics and MS degree in Computer Science, both from Rochester Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 2006. His interests include key exchange, secure multiparty computation, network security and foundations of cryptography. Vladimir has worked on security and privacy of key exchange in several practical settings (including standards work - WiMAX), biometric authentication, digital rights management, secure financial transactions (e.g. auctions), and a variety of other subjects.
Vladimir published his work in top cryptographic conferences and journals. He has served on program committees of several international cryptography conferences and supervised several summer interns at Bell Labs. He is an editor of the WiMAX "Server Certificate Profile" and "Device Certificate Profile" standards documents.

Personal: judo (4.5 yrs), soccer(football) (since age 4), chess (10 yrs).