Reihaneh "Rei" Safavi-Naini () is the NSERC/Telus Industrial Research Chair and the Alberta Innovates Strategic Chair in Information Security at the

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Education

Reihaneh received her PhD in

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from

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, Canada, under supervision of Prof. Ian F. Blake. She obtained her BSc and MSc in

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from the

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Career

Before joining University of Calgary in 2007, she was a Professor of Computer Science, Faculty of Informatics and the Director of Telecommunication and Information Technology Research Institute (TITR) and Centre for Information Security at the

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. She is the co-founder of th
Institute for Security, Privacy and Information Assurance
and served as its director until December 2018. She is currently leading the Information Security Lab (formerly known as the iCORE Information Security Lab) at the University of Calgary. She has served as the program co-chair of

CRYPTO Crypto commonly refers to: * Cryptography, the practice and study of hiding information * Cryptocurrency, a type of digital currency based on cryptography Crypto or krypto may also refer to: Cryptography * Cryptanalysis, the study of methods f ...

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, ASIACCS and Financial Cryptography and as a program committee member of major conferences in

cryptology Cryptography, or cryptology (from "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or ''-logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adversarial behavior. More gener ...

and

information security Information security is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks. It is part of information risk management. It typically involves preventing or reducing the probability of unauthorized or inappropriate access to data ...

. She has also served as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, and Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), and is currently an Associate Editor of IET Information Security and Journal of Mathematical Cryptology. In 2023 she was elected a fellow of the

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Publications

Her research interest is in cryptography and information theory and their applications to information security systems. She has published over 500 papers, including: * Scalable fragile watermarking for image authentication. (2013) Angela Piper, and Safavi-Naini Reihaneh. IET Information Security. * An efficient signature scheme from bilinear pairings and its applications. (2004) Fangguo Zhang, Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, Willy Susilo.

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. * Digital rights management for content distribution. (2003) Qiong Liu, Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, Nicholas Paul Sheppard. Proceedings of the Australasian information security workshop conference on ACSW frontiers.

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