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Hao Chen is a researcher at MSR Redmond working in the cryptography group. His research focuses on constructions, applications and cryptanalysis of fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) schemes. He obtained a PhD degree in mathematics in 2016 from University of Washington.

Wei Dai is a senior research SDE in the Cryptography and Privacy Research group at Microsoft Research. His research interests are cryptography, privacy, and high-performance computing, with a focus on homomorphic encryption and hardware acceleration. He received a PhD degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2019 and a BS degree from Fudan University in 2012.

Arun Gururajan is currently a principal data scientist working on Machine Learning for cybersecurity applications at Microsoft. His MS (2003) and PhD (2008) focused on developing computer vision algorithms for industrial and biomedical applications. Arun has published several peer reviewed articles in leading journals and conferences and has filed multiple patents. He has served as an invited faculty for the European Commission’s Vision and Robotics program and has lectured extensively within and outside the United States.

Sreekanth Kannepalli is the head of engineering for Foundry99, a startup incubation group within Microsoft Research. He manages product development and engineering for various startup like efforts in Microsoft Research. One of his focus is around privacy in AI and application Homomorphic Encryption, and related technologies, to real-life scenarios.

Kim Laine is a senior researcher in the Cryptography and Privacy Research Group at Microsoft Research, Redmond. He holds a PhD in mathematics from UC Berkeley and has been working at MSR for the past four years on applied cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies. Kim leads the development of the homomorphic encryption library “Microsoft SEAL” and is one of the co-organizers of the HomomorphicEncryption.org standardization effort for homomorphic encryption.

Kristin Lauter is a mathematician and cryptographer whose research areas are number theory, algebraic geometry, and applications to cryptography. She is particularly known for her work on homomorphic encryption, elliptic curve cryptography, and for introducing supersingular isogeny graphs as a hard problem into cryptography. She is a Principal Researcher and Partner Research Manager of the Cryptography and Privacy Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington. She served as President of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 2015 –2017. She has published more than 100 papers and holds more than 50 patents.

Eric is a Data Science Lead on the Developer Platform team within Azure Cosine (Core OS and Intelligent Edge) group. His current team focuses on providing business insights to inform new product decisions by using A/B experimentation, user research, machine learning and statistics to better understand the needs and behaviors of developers. During his 19 years at Microsoft, he has worked on many areas of the mail client, the web browser and developer platform teams in various roles including Test Engineer, Test Lead, Program Manager and Data Scientist. Eric holds a BS and PhD in Chemical Engineering and previously worked in chemical process research & development. For fun, Eric enjoys cooking, especially baking, travelling, learning new languages and music.

Steve is a Data Science/Engineering Manager in the Core Data team in Cosine (Core OS & Intelligent Edge) team. His current focus utilizing data telemetry to understand the state of the Windows ecosystem and identify areas that need attention. He has been in the data space for 5 years. He has been at Microsoft 22 years, also working on multimedia and developer APIs. Steve holds a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Yongsoo Song is a senior researcher in the Cryptography Research Group at Microsoft Research Redmond. His research focus is on security, privacy, and advanced cryptography. Currently he is interested in design, optimization, and applications of cryptographic primitives for secure computation including Homomorphic Encryption. He obtained BS and PhD degrees in mathematical sciences from Seoul National University, Korea, in 2012 and 2018, respectively. He was a postdoctoral researcher at UC San Diego prior to joining Microsoft.