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2025
Dr. Gaj serves as a member of the Program Committees for LightSEC 2025, OPTIMIST 2025, DATE 2026, and CHES 2026
Dr. Gaj serves as a member of the Program Committees for the following conferences and workshops:
- LightSEC 2025: 6th International Workshop on Lightweight Cryptography for Security and Privacy, to be held on September 1-2, 2025, in Istanbul, Turkey
- OPTIMIST Workshop 2025, to be held on September 14, 2025, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, co-located with CHES 2025
- DATE 2026: Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (Topic A3 - Secure Systems, Circuits and Architectures), to be held on April 20-22, 2026, in Verona, Italy, and
- CHES 2026: 28th IACR Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, to be held in Turkey, on October 11-15, 2026. The CHES 2026 PC is also the Editorial Board of Volume 2026 (Issues 1-4) of the IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES).
Multiple student members of CERG are contributing their time and expertise, serving as sub-reviewers for these conferences and workshops. (07/22/2025)
Dr. Gaj gave a seminar at the Polish National Institute of Telecommunications
On June 27, 2025, Dr. Gaj gave a hybrid seminar, titled "Basic Features and Hardware Implementations of Post-Quantum Cryptography Digital Signature Schemes," at the Polish National Institute of Telecommunications (NIT) in Warsaw, Poland. The seminar was hosted by Dr. Elzbieta Andrukiewicz, Head of IT Security Evaluation Facility (ITSEF) at NIT. The talk was based on the joint work with Luke Beckwith, Robert Wallace, and Kowsyap Pranay Kumar Musumuri. The seminar was attended by the representatives of academia, governmental agencies, and trust service providers in Poland. (06/28/2025)
Dr. Gaj spoke at CryptArchi 2025
Dr. Gaj gave a talk titled "Hardware Implementations of Post-Quantum Cryptography Digital Signature Schemes," at the 20th CryptArchi Workshop on Cryptographic Architectures Embedded in Logic Devices, held on June 15-18, 2025, in Autrans en Vercors, Grenoble, France. This talk was based on the joint work with Luke Beckwith, Robert Wallace, and Kowsyap Pranay Kumar Musumuri. (06/19/2025)
Luke Beckwith gave a talk at CBCrypto 2025
Luke Beckwith gave a talk titled "Towards Hardware Acceleration of LESS with Canonical Forms" at the International Workshop on Code-Based Cryptography, CBCrypto 2025, held in Madrid, Spain, on May 3-4, 2025. (05/05/2025)
Dr. Gaj spoke at FIPS 'n' Chips Crypto Module Bootcamp
Dr. Gaj will gave a talk titled "Implementing PQC in Hardware: Challenges and Rewards," at the FIPS 'n' Chips Crypto Module Bootcamp, organized by atsec information security, held at the University of Texas at Austin, on March 25, 2025. The full list of speakers and panelists of this event is available here. (03/26/2025)