World-leaders in Cryptography: Vincent Rijmen (March 2024)

Vincent Rijmen is one of the co-creators of the NIST-defined AES standard (also known as Rijndael). He also co-designed the WHIRLPOOL hashing method, along with designing other block ciphers, such as Square and SHARK. In 2002, Vincent was included in the Top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35, and, along with Joan Daemen, was awarded the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics. He recently joined Cryptomathic as a chief cryptographer, and also holds a professor position (gewoon hoogleraar) at K.U.Leuven, and adjunct professorship at the University of Bergen, Norway. His paper on the design of the Rijndael method has been cited over 8,900 times, and he has received over 26,000 citations for his research work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zBQxZrcAAAAJ

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