Date: 11th December 2025
Time: 14:00
Location: Computational Foundry, Room 202 (Robert Recorde Room)
Speakers: Dr Berry Schoenmakers, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology
Dr Berry Schoenmakers is an internationally recognised expert in the field of cryptography, with a particular focus on Secure Multiparty Computation (MPC). His research focuses on the development of cryptographic protocols for electronic voting, electronic payment systems, and secure multiparty computation, as well as work on amortised data structures and related algorithms. By bridging theoretical foundations with practical applications, his contributions play a pivotal role in advancing privacy-preserving collaborative computation.
Contact Information: https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/berry-schoenmakers
Overview of Event:
MPyC is a Python package introduced in 2018 as a versatile framework for programming MPC solutions. This seminar will discuss aspects of secure multiparty computation taking MPyC as primary example. It will highlight developments in usability, security, performance, and deployment of MPyC typical for the wider developments in MPC, touching on a wide range of topics such as outsourcing, threshold cryptography, fixed-point arithmetic, vectorized processing, and public verifiability. The seminar will also discuss practical and commercial deployment of MPC by Roseman Labs, based on their C++ MPC engine with crandas (“encrypted pandas”) as Python front-end for secure data collaboration.
This seminar is supported by CRANE, the EPSRC NetworkPlus for the cyber security research community: www.crane.ac.uk