Reihaneh "Rei" Safavi-Naini ( fa, ريحانه صفوی نائينی ) is the NSERC/Telus Industrial Research Chair and the Alberta Innovates Strategic Chair in Information Security at the
University of Calgary
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,
Canada
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Education
Reihaneh received her PhD in
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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from
University of Waterloo, Canada, under supervision of Prof. Ian F. Blake. She obtained her BSc and MSc in
Electrical Engineering
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from the
University of Tehran
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.
Career
Before joining University of Calgary in 2007, she was a Professor of Computer Science, Faculty of Informatics and the Director of Telecommunication and Information Technology Research Institute (TITR) and Centre for Information Security at the
University of Wollongong
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,
Australia
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.
She is the co-founder of th
Institute for Security, Privacy and Information Assuranceand served as its director until December 2018. She is currently leading the Information Security Lab (formerly known as the iCORE Information Security Lab) at the University of Calgary.
She has served as the program co-chair of
CRYPTO
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* Cryptocurrency, a type of digital currency secured by cryptography and decentralization
* Cryptography, the practice and study of hiding information
Crypto or Krypto may also refer to:
Cryptography
* Cryptanalysis, ...
,
ASIACRYPT, ASIACCS and Financial Cryptography and as a program committee member of major conferences in
cryptology and
information security
Information security, sometimes shortened to InfoSec, is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks. It is part of information risk management. It typically involves preventing or reducing the probability of unauthorize ...
. She has also served as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, and Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), and is currently an Associate Editor of IET Information Security and Journal of Mathematical Cryptology.
Publications
Her research interest is in cryptography and information theory and their applications to information security systems. She has published over 500 papers,
including:
* Scalable fragile watermarking for image authentication. (2013) Angela Piper, and Safavi-Naini Reihaneh. IET Information Security.
* An efficient signature scheme from bilinear pairings and its applications. (2004) Fangguo Zhang, Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, Willy Susilo. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
* Digital rights management for content distribution. (2003) Qiong Liu, Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, Nicholas Paul Sheppard. Proceedings of the Australasian information security workshop conference on ACSW frontiers.
See also
* List of University of Waterloo people
* Zhang Fangguo, a collaborator on short signature schemes
References
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Living people
University of Waterloo alumni
Public-key cryptographers
Modern cryptographers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian women computer scientists
Canadian computer scientists
University of Calgary faculty