Biography

A native Texan, Bill Brumley is a Kevin O'Sullivan Endowed Professor in Cybersecurity at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in New York, where he also serves as Director of Research for RIT's Global Cybersecurity Instutute (GCI). He received his doctorate from Aalto University (Helsinki, Finland) in 2012. He is a former Staff Engineer for Qualcomm's Product Security Initiative (QPSI) in San Diego, California. He is a 2018 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Laureate. Before joining RIT, he spent a decade as a Professor at Tampere University (Finland). He specializes in system security, cryptography engineering, and side-channel analysis.