OC3 | Program Committee

Program committee Chair

Felix Schuster

CEO at Edgeless Systems

Felix Schuster is an academic turned startup founder. After his PhD in computer security, he joined Microsoft Research to work four years on the foundations of Azure Confidential Computing, before co-founding Edgeless Systems. The startup’s vision is to build an open-source stack for cloud-native Confidential Computing. Throughout his career, Felix has frequently given technical talks at top-tier conferences, including Usenix Security Symposium, IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, and ACM CCS. His 2015 paper on the “VC3” system is believed by some to have coined the term Confidential Computing.

Program committee Members

Moritz Eckert

VP Product & Technology at Edgeless Systems

Moritz Eckert is a cloud security enthusiast. With a past in software security research he now leads product development at Edgeless Systems. Moritz is a passionate engineer and has presented at top-tier conferences including Usenix Security Symposium, EuropeClouds Summit, and OC3 in the past. Alongside his professional work, Moritz is part of Shellphish, one of the highest-ranked competitive hacking groups in the world.

Pawan Khandavilli

Senior Product Manager at Microsoft

Pawan Khandavilli is a senior product manager in Azure Confidential Computing (ACC) with a focus on serverless and confidential computing. Pawan has previously worked at Fortanix and the Royal Bank of Canada in a variety of roles with a focus on applying innovative security technologies to business problems. Pawan is passionate about data security and privacy and is a certified information privacy technologist.

Ijlal Loutfi

Product Lead at Canonical

Ijlal Loutfi is the Product Lead for platform Security at Canonical. She is also a part-time lecturer at the University of Oslo. She started working on confidential computing back during her PhD studies at the University of Oslo, where she researched trusted execution environments for commodity endpoint devices. She also spent time as a visiting researcher at various labs, including HP Security Labs in Bristol. After completing her PhD, Ijlal joined the Norwegian Computing Center to focus on privacy-enhancing technologies. Earlier in her career, she worked as a field Consultant with Microsoft, deploying identity management and access control solutions to enterprises.

Marc Meunier

Director of Ecosystem at Arm

An engineer at heart with a passion for innovation, Marc is never far from a soldering iron or a pile of design books. After years of leading engineering teams in live-video production, mobile devices, and Fintech, Marc gravitated towards inter-company leadership roles that focus on innovative architectures to accelerate high tech innovation. As the Director of Ecosystem Development, Marc leads projects in security and networking as part of the Infrastructure line of business at Arm. To nurture a global framework for these projects, Marc sits on the governing board for the Confidential Compute Consortium, the DataPlane Development Kit project and the Open Programmable Infrastructure project.

Dan Middleton

Principal Software Engineer at NVIDIA

Dan Middleton is a Principal Software Architect at NVIDIA and the Technical Advisory Chair of the Confidential Computing Consortium. He has deep experience driving innovation at the intersection of open source and emerging technologies. Over his career, he has led the development and release of products spanning Services, SaaS, Computational Imaging, Blockchain, and Confidential Computing. Dan has a strong track record of leadership in the open-source ecosystem, having represented organizations in Linux Foundation projects such as Hyperledger, CNCF CoCo, and the Open Source Security Foundation.

Nicolas Mäding

Principal Product Manager for Confidential Computing at IBM

Nicolas Mäding is Principal Product Manager at the IBM Lab in Böblingen, Germany. He received his Dipl. Ing. Degree in Electrical and Information Technology at the Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany. He joined IBM in 2001 and worked in various development and management positions in IBM Systems Hardware Development. He joined the Z-as-a-Service organization as Release Manager of the Hyper Protect Hosting Appliance in 2018 and became product manager for the Secure Execution based offerings. In 2023 he was appointed as Principal Product Manager for the Hyper Protect Platform and Confidential Computing on LinuxONE and Linux on IBM Z. He is author or co-author of more than 12 patents and several technical papers.

Katsiaryna Naliuka

Senior Software Engineer at Google DeepMind

Katsiaryna Naliuka is a Software Engineer working on Project Oak at Google DeepMind. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Trento, where her doctoral research specialized in mobile phone security.

Jörg Rödel

Principal Member of Technical Staff at AMD

Jörg is Principal Member of Technical Staff at AMD. Prior to this, he lead the Confidential Computing efforts at SUSE, working with AMD on enabling SEV and related technologies. In this role he implemented major parts of the AMD SEV-ES guest support in the Linux kernel and brought it upstream into kernel 5.10. He is also active in the Linux kernel community as the maintainer for the IOMMU subsystem and a contributor to other areas like KVM or the X86 architecture.

Emily Sakata

Senior Product Manager at NVIDIA

Emily Sakata is a senior product manager for data center GPUs at NVIDIA. Her work focuses on bringing security features on accelerated computing to deliver trustworthy solutions to market. She has held cybersecurity and security product management roles in software and industrial product companies.

Supraja Sridhara

Doctorate at ETH Zürich

Supraja Sridhara is a final-year PhD student in the Secure and Trustworthy Computing group at ETH Zürich, focusing on enhancing security in cloud computing environments. Her research aims to extend the trust boundaries of confidential computing to various devices, thereby enabling powerful computation without compromising security. During her PhD, she interned at Intel Labs, where she worked on confidential computing and trusted I/O. Prior to her doctoral studies, she earned a Master's degree in Computer Science from ETH Zürich and worked as a software engineer at Cisco.

Mingshen Sun

Research Scientist at TikTok Privacy Innovation Lab

Mingshen is leading innovation and adoption of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies and Confidential Computing at TikTok. Previously, he worked on multiple open source projects building safe, secure and trustworthy systems. Mingshen also published academic papers and presented industry innovations on topics at the intersection of privacy and security, operating systems, and programming languages. He also serves on Technical Advisory Council of Confidential Computing Consortium.

Vaishali Thakkar

Confidential Computing Expert at SUSE

Vaishali Thakkar works as a Confidential Computing Expert at SUSE, where she engages with upstream communities and collaborates with partners on technical initiatives. In her previous roles, she contributed to various Linux kernel subsystems and was involved as the Linux kernel coordinator for Outreachy. Active in the kernel community for over a decade, she is also a frequent speaker at conferences such as KVM Forum, Linux Plumbers Conference, FOSDEM, Kernel Recipes etc.

Mona Vij

Senior Principal Manager at Intel Labs

Mona Vij is a Principal Engineer and Cloud and Data Center Security Research Manager at IntelLabs, where she focuses on Pervasive Confidential Computing for end-to-end Cloud to Edge security. Mona received her MS in computer science fromUniversity of Delhi, India. Mona leads the research engagements on Trusted execution with several universities. Her research has been featured in journals and conferences including USNIX OSDI, USENIX ATC and ACM ASPLOS, among others. Mona's research interests primarily include trusted computing, virtualization, device drivers and operating systems.

Raghu Yeluri

Fellow & Chief Architect at Intel

Raghu Yeluri is a Sr. Principal Engineer and lead Security Architect in the Office of the CTO/Security Architecture and Technology group at Intel Corporation with focus on confidential computing, hardware roots of trust, container and cloud security architectures and technology initiatives. He is the chief architect for Intel Trust Authority, Intel's first security and trust SaaS released in 2023. He is a frequent presenter at technical conferences like Kubecon,OC3, Intel Innovation, IBM Think, VMWorld, etc on Security. Raghu has multiple patents in security, attestation, confidentiality/integrity protection for containers and VMs, and has co-authored two books on cloud computing and cloud security.