Rei Safavi-Naini
Professor
Computer Science
Rei Safavi-Naini is the NSERC/Telus Industrial Research Chair and Alberta Innovates Strategic Chair in Information Security. She co-founded (with Dr. Hugh Williams) Institute for Security, Privacy and Information Assurance at the University of Calgary in 2009 and served as its Director until January 2019. She joined he University of Calgary in 2007 as the iCORE Chair in Information Security, and before that was a Professor of Computer Science and the Director of Telecommunication and Information Technology Research Institute at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
She has over 400 published peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences, has served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (two times), ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), IEEE Transactions on Secure and Dependable Computing, and is currently Associate Editor of IET Information Security and Journal of Mathematical Cryptology. She has served as Program Chair/co-Chair of numerous conferences, including Privacy, Security and Trust (PST 2017), ACM CCSW 2014, Financial Cryptography 2014, ACNS 2013 and Crypto 2012.
She has led major industry collaborative research and development teams in Canada and Australia, and has an. established collaborative research program with Telus Communications.
She has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada.