 Dr. Jintai Ding is a professor of mathematics at the University of Cincinnati. He is a member and a founder of the Applied Algebra and Cryptography Group in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. Though trained as a pure algebraist, he has focused his research in information security and cryptography during the last ten years. His main research area is in applying algebraic geometry theory and techniques in public key cryptography, in particular, in multivariate public key cryptography, where a set of multivariate polynomials is used as the public key. Multivariate public key cryptography is one of the major families of new public key cryptosystems, which have the potential to resist a future quantum computer attack . Ding has made significant contributions in multivariate public key cryptography, and he developed several new methods to attack and design multivariate pubic key cryptosystems. He is one of the authors of the book Multivariate Public Key Cryptosystems published in the Information Security Series by Springer in 2006. |
Dr. Chris Christensen is a professor of mathematics at Northern Kentucky University. He regularly teaches cryptology to undergraduate mathematics and computer science majors and to non-mathematical sciences majors in NKU’s Honors Program. He has twice taught cryptology in London as apart of the Cooperative Center for Study Abroad’s London Winter Session. Since 1995 Christensen has been involved in mentoring NKU undergraduate student research. He was trained as an algebraic geometer, but for the past ten years he has been studying cryptology. He is particularly interested in cryptologic history.