David Pointcheval

David Pointcheval is a CNRS Researcher at the Computer Science Department of École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris, France. Since 2005, he has led the Cryptography Team, which has been associated with Inria since 2008. He became the Chair of the Computer Science Department at ENS in 2017.

• Education: PhD in Computer Science (1996) from University of Caen.

His research focuses on the provable security of cryptographic primitives and protocols. He has contributed to privacy-preserving aggregation techniques for data from multiple sources, including work on homomorphic encryption and functional encryption.

He has served as program chair for major cryptography conferences (PKC 2010, Eurocrypt 2012) and held leadership roles in the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) as one of nine elected directors for nine years. He holds over 150 international publications and a dozen patents.

• Scientific Awards:
  • ERC Advanced Grant (Privacy for the Cloud)