Marten van Dijk

Chief Scientist, Riverbed
Associate Professor, ECE Department, University of Connecticut

Marten van Dijk has over 10 years research experience in system security both in academia and industry. He worked for two and a half years at RSA Laboratories in cybersecurity. Prior to RSA he was a research scientist at MIT CSAIL working collaboratively with Professor Srini Devadas with an emphasis on processor architectures that offer strong security guarantees; most notably, this collaboration led to the design of Aegis, the first single-chip secure processor that verifies integrity and freshness of external memory. This also led to the  introduction of the first circuit realizations of Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) resulting in a commercialization by Verayo and Intrinsic-ID. His work received the NYU-Poly AT&T Best Applied Security Paper Award, 3rd place, 2012, and the ACSAC’02 outstanding student paper award. Prior to working in system security he was a research scientist at the digital signal processing group at Philips Research, where he became the lead inventor of the error correcting codes used in Blu-ray disc. He received a Ph.D. in Mathematics, a M.S. in Mathematics, and a M.S. in Computer Science from Eindhoven University of Technology.