Dr. Scott Vanstone

Scott Vanstone, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, currently holds the NSERC/Pitney Bowes senior industrial-research chair of cryptography at the University of Waterloo. He is a world authority in cryptology and its applications and has been a driving force in the development of the theory and practice of elliptic curve cryptosystems. These systems are now recognized worldwide as vital to the deployment of wide scale electronic commerce, in great part due to his efforts. A number of Vanstone's research initiatives are being adapted as international standards. His internationally acclaimed sixth book is the definitive text on applied cryptography: no serious researcher or practitioner in the art would be without it.