Kaoutar El Khiyaoui

Overview

Kaoutar El Khiyaoui

Title

Research Staff Member

Location

IBM Research Europe - Zurich Zurich, Switzerland

Bio

Kaoutar Elkhiyaoui is a research staff member at IBM Research Zurich. She obtained her phD in applied cryptography in 2012 from Telecom ParisTech, and her master degree in electrical engineering in 2009 from Telecom Bretagne.

Prior to joining IBM Research, Kaoutar was a research scientist at Eurecom, where her research focused on cloud security and spanned topics such as verifiable computation and storage.

Kaoutar's work at IBM Research is centered around blockchain security and privacy. She conducts research in the areas of privacy-preserving token systems with focus on zero-knowledge proofs and distributed ledger technology.

Publications

Patents

Projects

Researchers develop defenses against deep learning hack attacks

Highly Resilient Transaction Processing

A highly resilient and high-throughput transaction processing platform

Tokenized Financial Asset Exchange

Building the platform for secure central bank digital currencies (CBDC)

Top collaborators

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Julia Hesse

Julia Hesse

Technical Assistant to Alessandro Curioni, VP IBM Research Europe & Africa