Foundation Council
Andrew Yao Dean Andrew Yao
Dean of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences at Tsinghua University; winner of the Turing Award and Kyoto Prize
Raphael Egger Raphael Egger
Attorney-at-Law and Partner at Egger Dommer Bär; specializing in corporate law and corporate transactions (M&A)
Dr. Benjamin Mueller Dr. Benjamin Mueller
Executive Director of SecureBio; PhD in International Relations
Management Team
Dr. Leonard Foner
Software architect and security lead for SecureDNA, with research background in cryptography, distributed systems, and privacy-protecting technologies
Kirsten Engel Kirsten Engel
Leads global strategic partner and policy engagement, and supports client relationships at SecureDNA. Diverse background in global business development
Advisors - Special Projects
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Jens Berlips Jens Berlips
Swedish health tech entrepreneur with interest in biosafety
Cryptography Advisors
Photo of Ivan Damgard Prof. Ivan Damgård
Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University; co-inventor of the Merkle-Damgård construction, used in important cryptographic functions including SHA-2 and MD5
Yu Yu Prof. Yu Yu
Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, with special interests in pseudorandomness and leakage-resilient cryptography
Mingyu Gao Prof. Mingyu Gao
Assistant professor of computer science at Tsingua University’s Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences; leads the Innovative Data-centric Efficient Architecture Lab (IDEAL)
Prof Carsten Baum Prof. Carsten Baum
Associate Professor in Cybersecurity Section at DTU Compute
Academic Advisors
Adi Shamir Prof. Adi Shamir
Professor at Weizmann Institute; co-inventor of widely used RSA algorithm and Feige-Fiat-Shamir identification scheme; one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis
Lan Xue Dean Lan Xue
Distinguished Professor and Dean of Schwarzman College in Tsinghua University, with research interests in public policy analysis, science and technology policy, and global governance
Ron Rivest Prof. Ron Rivest
One of just twelve Institute Professors across MIT; co-inventor of the widely used RSA public-key cryptosystem; inventor of symmetric key encryption algorithms RC2, RC4, and RC5
Vinod Vaikuntanathan Prof. Vinod Vaikuntanathan
Professor of computer science at MIT; chief cryptographer at Duality Technologies; Gödel Prize winner (2022); co-inventor of modern fully homomorphic encryption systems and several lattice-based primitives
Kenneth Oye Prof. Kenneth Oye
Professor of Political Science, Professor of Data Systems and Society; Director of the MIT Program on Emerging Technologies, with research interests in international relations, political economy, and tech policy
Daniel Wichs Prof. Daniel Wichs
Associate professor of computer science at Northeastern University, with research interests in all aspects of modern cryptography, including theoretical foundations and applications to information security
Emma Chory Dr. Emma Chory
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University.
Erika DeBeneditis Dr. Erika DeBenedictis
Principal Investigator at the Biodesign Library at the Francis Crick Institute; physicist and synthetic biologist with PhD in Biological Engineering from MIT
Xiang Li Xiang Li
PhD candidate at Tsinghua University’s Institute of Network Science and Cyberspace, with research interests including network and protocol security
Brian Wang Dr. Brian Wang
Executive Director of Panoplia Laboratories, which is developing next-generation broad-spectrum antivirals. Former postdoctoral researcher under Prof. Kevin Esvelt at the Sculpting Evolution Group at the MIT Media Lab
Dana Gretton Dana Gretton - Past Advisor
PhD candidate at MIT Media Lab specializing in DNA security and liquid handling robotics, graduate research assistant at Sculpting Evolution Group
Additional Contributions
We are also grateful for research contributions from Hongri Cui, Jiangbin Dong, Kaiyi Li, Rey Edison, and Andres Fabrega.
