The 11th Security Standardisation Research Conference (SSR 2026) is organized by an international team of researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government. The committees and organizers responsible for the conference and its co-located workshops are listed below.
Conference Leadership
Conference Organizer
Alan T. Sherman
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Program Committee Chair
Keke Chen
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Conference Organizers
Yiwen Hu
Publicity Chair
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Enis Golaszewski
Organizer, Workshop on Protocol Analysis
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Shin’ichiro Matsuo
Organizer, Workshop on Post-Quantum Cryptography for Blockchains
Georgetown University, USA
Mitchell Travers
Program Co-Chair, PQC for Blockchains Workshop
BGIN
Kanta Matsuura
Program Co-Chair, PQC for Blockchains Workshop
The University of Tokyo, Japan
Bharg Barot
Webmaster
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Steering Committee
Liqun Chen
University of Surrey, UK
Shin’ichiro Matsuo
Georgetown University, USA
Thyla van der Merwe
ETH Future Computing Laboratory, Zurich
Chris Mitchell
Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Bart Preneel
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Program Committee
The SSR 2026 Program Committee comprises experts from universities, research institutions, industry, and government organizations worldwide.Aysajan Abidin
KU Leuven, Belgium
Nouri Alnahawi
Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Zahra Ebadi Ansaroudi
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy
Tushar Badlani
Figma, USA
Zhaohui Cheng
Olym Info. Sec. Inc., China
Jihoon Cho
Samsung SDS, South Korea
Benjamin Curtis
Zama, United Kingdom
Orr Dunkelman
University of Haifa, Israel
Scott Fluhrer
Cisco Systems, USA
Enis Golaszewski
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Yiwen Hu
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Dinesh Jayaraman
Capital One, USA
Seyni Kane
Orange Innovation, France
John Kelsey
NIST, USA
Stephan Krenn
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Thalia Laing
HP Inc., United Kingdom
Shin’ichiro Matsuo
Georgetown University, USA
Chris Mitchell
Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Henrich C. Pöhls
University of Passau, Germany
Yanbin Pan
AMSS, China
Silvio Ranise
University of Trento and Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy
Kazue Sako
Waseda University, Japan
Markku-Juhani Saarinen
Tampere University, Finland
Alan T. Sherman
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Amir Sharif
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy
Christoph Striecks
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Alessandro Tomasi
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy
Jacques Traore
Orange Labs, France
Xisen Tian
Naval Postgraduate School, USA
Mathy Vanhoef
KU Leuven, Belgium
Gaven J. Watson
Meta, USA
Christian Weinert
Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Tian Xie
Utah State University, USA
Kazuki Yoneyama
Ibaraki University, Japan
Edward Zieglar
National Security Agency, USA
Co-located Workshop: Post-Quantum Cryptography for Blockchains
The workshop is organized by the Blockchain Governance Initiative Network (BGIN) in coordination with the SSR 2026 Organizing Committee. For more information, visit the PQC for Blockchains Workshop page .Workshop Leadership
Organizing Chair
Shin’ichiro Matsuo
Georgetown University
Program Co-Chair
Mitchell Travers
BGIN
Program Co-Chair
Kanta Matsuura
The University of Tokyo
Workshop Organizing Committee
Eric Burger
Virginia Tech, CyberSMART
Kabuto Okajima
Georgetown University
Saki Otsuki
Georgetown University
Shoki Tsuda
BN
Daisuke Tanaka
NRI
Masataka Ukawa
NEDO
Workshop Program Committee
Andrea Bracciali
University of Turin
Feng Chen
University of British Columbia
Craig Costello
Queensland University of Technology
Coner Deegan
Project Eleven
Geoffrey Goodwell
UCL
Ethan Heilman
Cloudflare
Leona Hioki
Intmax
Tadahiko Ito
Secom Ltd
Gretchen Matthews
Virginia Tech
Sushmita Ruj
The University of New South Wales
Massimiliano Sala
University of Trento
Yuto Takei
Mercari Inc.
Mario Yaksetig
University of Porto
Adam Zalcman
Google Quantum AI
Sponsors and Contact
SSR 2026 gratefully acknowledges the support of its sponsors and institutional partners. Please visit our Sponsors page for details. For conference-related inquiries, please visit our Contact Us page to reach the appropriate organizer or conference chair.