Rei Safavi-Naini is the iCORE Chair in Information  Security and co-director of  Centre for Information Security and Cryptography  at the University of Calgary, Canada.    Before joining University of Calgary in 2007, she was a Professor of Computer Science and the Director of Telecommunication and Information Technology Research Institute (now  ICT Research Institute) at the University of Wollongong  Australia. She is associate editor of IEEE Transaction on Information Theory and ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, has served on the program committee of major conferences in cryptology and information security. Her research interest includes cryptography, network security, and digital and privacy rights management. She holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada.