About the Authors
Boris Balacheff has been a researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Bristol, UK, since 1997. He currently leads research activities in the areas of trusted platforms and infrastructure security. Boris has expertise in the fields of smartcard technology, computer security, and more specifically platform security technologies. He graduated as a Scientific Modeling and Computing engineer from the ISIMA College of Engineering in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Boris is also a technical representative for Hewlett-Packard on the TCPA Technical Committee and on the PC/SC Technical Workgroup.
Dr. Liqun Chen is a Research Engineer at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK. Her main research interests are in information security, focussing in particular on computer and network security. She received her B.Sc. (1982), M.Sc. (1985) and Ph.D. (1988) degrees in Telecommunications from Southeast University, P. R. China. Prior to joining HP in 1997, she worked at Royal Holloway, University of London as a Research Assistant for four years. Before that, she spent over a year at Oxford University as an academic visitor. From 1988 to 1991, she was a Lecturer at Southeast University. She has authored and co-authored over 20 articles in international conference proceedings and journals, and is inventor and co-inventor of over 20 filed patent applications. She is a member of Technical Panel 2 of BSI IST/33, dealing with Security Mechanisms and providing input to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27 on which she currently serves as a UK Expert and as editor of an international security standard: ISO/IEC 10118-3 (dedicated hash-functions – 2nd edition).
Dr Siani Pearson is a Research Engineer at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, specializing in computer security, trust and privacy. After graduating with an MA in Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of Oxford, she obtained an MSc and PhD in Artificial Intelligence at Edinburgh University. She worked for several years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cambridge before joining HP in 1994. She has published papers in a variety of fields from agent technology to on-line privacy and filed over 20 patents. Siani features as an inventor in the current 'HP Invent' advertising campaign.
David Plaquin has been a researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Bristol, UK, since 1999. He is currently researching platform and infrastructure security. He has expertise in smart card and IT security, especially the hardware and operating system aspects of platform security. He graduated as a Scientific Modeling and Computing engineer from the ISIMA College of Engineering in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Graeme Proudler is the “Technical Lead” of the HPL research group that contributed to the TCPA specification. His current specialities are trust and information security in computer platforms and networks. He read Physics at Wadham College, Oxford. After graduation, he designed hardware for communication-security equipment. Since joining Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in 1985, he has worked on information security, networking and mobile communications. He contributed to the GSM standard and suggested some basic features of TCPA technology. He was a founder member of the TCPA Technical Committee and the first editor of the TCPA main specification. He has 24 patents either issued or pending.