Vincent Rijmen | |
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 Vincent Rijmen in 2021 | |
| Born | (1970-10-16)16 October 1970 (age 55) Leuven, Belgium |
| Alma mater | KU Leuven |
| Known for | Rijndael |
| Awards | Levchin Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cryptography |
| Institutions | KU Leuven |
| Thesis | Cryptanalysis and Design of Iterated Block Ciphers (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | Joos Vandewalle René Govaerts |
Vincent Rijmen (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈvɪnsɛntˈrɛimə(n)]; born 16 October 1970) is aBelgiancryptographer and one of the two designers of theRijndael, the Advanced Encryption Standard. Rijmen is also the co-designer of theWHIRLPOOLcryptographic hash function, and theblock ciphersAnubis,KHAZAD,Square,NOEKEON andSHARK.
In 1993, Rijmen obtained a degree in electronics engineering at theKatholieke Universiteit Leuven. Afterwards, he was a PhD student at the ESAT/COSIC lab of the K.U.Leuven. In 1997, Rijmen finished his doctoral dissertation titledCryptanalysis and design of iterated block ciphers.
After his PhD he did postdoctoral work at theCOSIC lab, on several occasions collaborating withJoan Daemen. One of their joint projects resulted in the algorithmRijndael, which in October 2000 was selected by theNational Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) to become theAdvanced Encryption Standard (AES).[1]
Since 1 August 2001, Rijmen has been working as chief cryptographer atCryptomathic where he cooperated with cryptographers such asPeter Landrock.[2] From 2001 to 2003, Rijmen was a visiting professor at theInstitute for Applied Information Processing and Communications atGraz University of Technology (Austria), and a full professor there from 2004 to 2007. Since October 2007, Rijmen has worked again with theCOSIC lab and currently holds a professor position (gewoon hoogleraar) at K.U.Leuven. Since January 2019 he is also an adjunct professor at Selmer Center (the secure communication group at theUniversity of Bergen,Norway).
In 2002, he was named by theMITTechnology ReviewTR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[3]
In 2019, he was named a Fellow of theInternational Association for Cryptologic Research for "co-designing AES, contributions to the design and cryptanalysis of symmetric primitives, and service to the IACR."[4]
In 2020, he received, withJoan Daemen, theRSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics from the hands ofRon Rivest.
In 2023, he received theLevchin Prize for his work on AES.[5]
For 2025 he was awarded theBBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category "Information and Communication Technologies" jointly with Joan Daemen.[6]
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