Quantum Security 25 Judges

Dr. Amit Sinha

CEO of DigiCert

Dr. Amit Sinha is CEO of DigiCert. Prior to DigiCert, Dr. Sinha was President of Zscaler. During his 12-year tenure, Zscaler grew from a startup to a NASDAQ-100 company and established itself as a dominant leader in enterprise security. Dr. Sinha is an independent Board Member at Zscaler and at DataRobot, an AI cloud platform company, and an advisor to several startups.

Prior to Zscaler, Dr. Sinha served as CTO for Motorola’s Enterprise Networking and Communications business, delivering Wi-Fi solutions. He was the CTO of AirDefense, a market leader in the wireless security space, leading to its successful acquisition by Motorola in 2008. Prior to AirDefense, Dr. Sinha served as Co-Founder and Chief Technologist at Engim, a Wi-Fi semiconductor company.

Dr. Sinha earned his Masters and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and his B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, where he graduated summa cum laude and was awarded the President of India Gold Medal. He has authored over 25 journal/conference papers, contributed to 3 books, and is the inventor of 39 U.S. patents granted or pending.

Alan Shimel

Founder and Editor-In-Chief, Techstrong Group

An often-cited personality in the security and technology community and a sought-after speaker at industry and government events, Alan has helped build several successful technology companies by combining a strong business background with a deep knowledge of technology.

Debbie Taylor Moore

Global Security Executive, Co-Founder & Managing Partner with The Quantum Crunch

Debbie has been a Cybersecurity leader for more than two decades. She has served as VP of Security for Verizon Business, Kratos Defense and IBM. She’s also been the CEO and founder of two accelerators, Cyber Zephyr, LLC and Energy Cyber Partners, Inc. She has developed and led global security programs in 25 countries and across 4 continents. Her work is at the nexus of security, AI, Quantum, Robotics and other emerging tech. She serves on independent Executive Boards for the Department of Defense, (The Cyber AB) and the Consumer Technology Association, delivering the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). She has testified before the 118th Congress on Cybersecurity and AI. She is a champion for early-stage innovation and advises corporate boards, venture, private equity and the c-suite on Quantum Security in her company Quantum Crunch, LLC. (Launching Jan. 2025) Her origin story can be found in each of the Security Yearbooks published annually by Richard Stiennon, former Gartner Research, VP and IT-Harvest CEO and Analyst.

Martin Albrecht

Professor of Cryptography at King’s College London

Martin Albrecht is a Professor of Cryptography at King’s College London and a Principal Research Scientist at SandboxAQ. He works broadly across the field of cryptography with works published in top cryptography and cybersecurity venues. His work focuses on the analysis of deployed or soon-to-be deployed cryptographic solutions and he has responsibly disclosed severe vulnerabilities to various public and private stakeholders such as OpenSSH, Amazon EC2, Apple, Telegram, Jitsi and Matrix. He further works on designing advanced cryptographic solutions. He is well known for analysing the security of lattice-based cryptography against classical and quantum computers. His Erdös-Bacon number is 6.

Dr. Lily Chen

Mathematician and a NIST fellow

Dr. Lily Lidong Chen is a mathematician and a NIST fellow. She has over 30 years of experience in cryptography research, standardization, and application. Her research interests include cryptography, network security, and security in communications. Dr. Chen joined NIST in 2005. She served as the manager of Cryptographic Technology Group in Computer Security Division, Information Technology Lab from 2012 to 2023. Besides NIST standards, Dr. Chen has actively contributed to standards development in IEEE-SA, ISO, and other organizations.