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  • General Chair: International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public Key Cryptography (PKC), Edinburgh, 2021 (link)
  • Published: QFactory: classically-instructed remote secret qubits preparation A. Cojocaru, L. Colisson, E. Kashefi, P. Wallden ASIACRYPT (2019)
  • Published Methods for Classically Simulating Noisy Networked Quantum Architectures I. Vankov, D. Mills, P. Wallden, E. Kashefi Quantum Science and Technology (2019)
  • Preprint: The Bitcoin Backbone Protocol Against Quantum Adversaries A. Cojocaru, J. Garay, A. Kiayias, F. Song, P. Wallden, eprint (2019)
  • Published: Cyber Security in the Quantum Era P. Wallden and E. Kashefi CACM (2019)
  • Editor: Special Issue on "Quantum Cryptography and Cyber Security" (link)
  • PC committee: ACISP 2020 (link)
  • General Chair: International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public Key Cryptography (PKC), Edinburgh, 2020 (link)
  • Interview: Cyber Security in the Quantum Era, Part of the review article for Communications of the ACM video (2019)
  • Interview: About Quantum Computers, Part of First Scottish Quantum Hackathon (QuHackEd) video (2019)
  • New MSc Course: Our School has established a new MSc in Cyber Security, Privacy and Trust. Details here
  • PC committee: QCrypt 2019 (link)
  • Organised: Workshop on "Cyber Security in the Age of Quantum Computing" University of Edinburgh, 27th February 2019. Details here. Part of SICSA Cyber Nexus series.
  • Organised: Workshop: "Quantum Information in Scotland" University of Edinburgh, 30th January 2018. website
  • Organised: Workshop: "Quantum Information Technologies: Challenges and Applications" University of Edinburgh, 30th & 31st October 2017. website
  • Preprint: "Methods for Classically Simulating Noisy Networked Quantum Architectures" I. Vankov, D. Mills, P. Wallden and E. Kashefi link
  • Preprint: "On the possibility of classical client blind quantum computing" A. Cojocaru, L. Colisson, E. Kashefi and P. Wallden link
  • Preprint: "The Quantum Cut-and-Choose Technique and Quantum Two-Party Computation" E. Kashefi, L. Music and P. Wallden link
  • Recently Published: "Efficient Unconditionally Secure Signatures Using Universal Hashing" R. Amiri, A. Abidin, P. Wallden and E. Andersson ACNS2018
  • Invited Speaker: 22nd Symposium on Quantum Information, Leeds 2018 link
  • Invited Colloquium: Heriot Watt University, November 2018 link
  • Invited Speaker: Trustworthy Quantum Information 2017 link
  • Invited Speaker: 6th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics 2017 link
  • Management Committee (MC) Member: COST Action MP1006 "Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics" (2012-2015). website
  • Organised: Workshop: "Quantum Information in Scotland" University of Edinburgh, 8th December 2014. website
  • Organised: Workshop: "Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Gravity" Imperial College, London, 24th & 25th of April 2014. website
  • News articles on Quantum Digital Signatures: here and here