Peeter Laud
Peeter Laud is an Estonian computer scientist in the field of cryptology and the theory of programming languages.
He graduated from Tartu University in 1997 in Computer Science and defended his MSc there in 1998. In 2002 he defended his PhD dissertation "Computationally Secure Information Flow" at Saarland University.
Since 1998, Peeter Laud works at Cybernetica (Estonian company), starting as a researcher, then 2002-2008 as a Senior researcher and 2008-2021 as the Director of Information Security Research Institute. From April 2021 he once again is involved in practical research as a Senior researcher.
In period of 1999-2000 he worked as a science fellow at Saarland University, 2002-2012 served as a Research Fellow, Senior researcher, Associate and Full professor at Tartu University. From 2019 he is a Visiting professor at Tartu University.
Main research areas of Peeter Laud are security analysis, and construction of secure programs, protocols, and large systems; differential privacy and secure multiparty computation.
He has supervised 4 PhD and 15 MSc dissertations.
Peeter Laud is a member of an ensemble of sacred music 'Stella Caeli', at Maarja Church in Tartu.
Honours and Awards[edit]
- 2003 - Best Paper Award at ETAPS '03 by EAPLS "EAPLS" (European Association for Programming Languages and Systems)
- 2011 - Best article Award (on Information Systems) at ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
- 2011 - Young Scientist/Researcher Award from Cultural Foundation at the President of Estonia.
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