IACR Fellows Committee and Nominations
We hope that you will consider devoting some of your time and effort to nominating or endorsing an IACR-Fellow candidate. Please note that the nominator, nominee, and at least one endorser must be IACR members (or Fellows). Please verify membership by corresponding with the membership secretariat at
Nominations and endorsements are due on November 15. All necessary information can be found below:
IACR Fellows Selection Committee 2025
- Chair: Palash Sarkar (Indian Statistical Institute)
- Alexandra (Sasha) Boldyreva (Georgia Tech)
- Eike Kiltz (Ruhr University Bochum)
- Daniele Miccianco (University of California, San Diego)
- Nigel Smart (KU Leuven)
Previous Committee Members
- Eli Biham (Technion) 2015-2019 (chair: 2017)
- Gilles Brassard (Université de Montréal) 2013-2016 (chair: 2016)
- Ronald Cramer (CWI & Leiden University) 2017-2022 (chair: 2020, 2021)
- Ivan Damgård (Aarhus University) 2004-2007 (chair: 2005)
- Cynthia Dwork (Microsoft Research) 2004-2009 (chair: 2008)
- Joan Feigenbaum (Yale University) 2004-2006 (chair: 2004)
- Kwangjo Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) 2018-2021
- Hugo Krawczyk (IBM Research) 2004-2010 (chair: 2007)
- Arjen Lenstra (EPFL) 2011-2014 (chair: 2012)
- Anna Lysyanskaya (Brown University) 2016-2021 (chair: 2018)
- Ueli Maurer (ETH) 2010-2016 (chair: 2011)
- Kevin McCurley (Google) 2012-2014 (chair: 2014)
- Tatsuaki Okamoto (NTT) 2008-2012 (chair: 2010)
- Kenny Paterson (ETH Zurich) 2018-2024 (chair 2022)
- Chris Peikert (University of Michigan) 2016-2020 (chair: 2019)
- Ron Rivest (MIT) 2010-2012
- Phil Rogaway (UC Davis) 2013-2015 (chair: 2015)
- Michael Wiener (Cryptographic Clarity) 2004-2009 (chair: 2006)
- Moti Yung (Google Inc and Columbia University) 2007-2011 (chair: 2009)
Contact Information
The chair of the Fellows Selection Committee can be reached by email at