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Cybersecurity Insights

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Luís T.A.N. Brandão

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Luís Brandão received a Lic. in Technological Physics Engineering from Technical University of Lisbon, and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently with the NIST cryptographic technology group, computer security division, as a foreign guest researcher (contractor from Strativia). Among his activities at NIST, he is currently involved with the Privacy Enhancing Cryptography, Threshold Cryptography, Interoperable Randomness Beacons and Circuit Complexity projects.