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I am one of the pioneers of quantum symmetric cryptanalysis. I am also proud to have sent the last email in a public debate with Dan Bernstein. I will help making needed changes, and defending equality and respect.<br>Longer statement: <a href="https://www.rocq.inria.fr/secret/Maria.Naya_Plasencia/#statement">https://www.rocq.inria.fr/secret/Maria.Naya_Plasencia/#statement</a><br>Home page: <a href="http://naya.plasencia.free.fr/Maria/">http://naya.plasencia.free.fr/Maria/</a></p></div><div class="candidate"><h5>Francisco Rodriguez-Henriquez</h5><p>Statement: I've been working in cryptographic research for the last twenty years. I have served as PC member in many IACR conferences. I have been General/Program co-chair in Latincrypt, ECC, CHES and CRYPTO. If elected as Director, I'll be representing the applied cryptographic community, and cryptographers belonging to the Global South.<br>Longer statement: <a href="https://delta.cs.cinvestav.mx/~francisco/iacr/">https://delta.cs.cinvestav.mx/~francisco/iacr/</a><br>Home page: <a href="https://delta.cs.cinvestav.mx/~francisco/">https://delta.cs.cinvestav.mx/~francisco/</a></p></div><div class="candidate"><h5>Mariana Raykova</h5><p>Statement: I would like to bring new ideas in the discussion how to scale the IACR conferences as our community continues to grow. I believe that conferences give an opportunity for the students to get the spotlight during their talks and I would advocate to preserve this.<br>Longer statement: none supplied<br>Home page: <a href="https://marianapr.github.io/">https://marianapr.github.io/</a></p></div><div class="candidate"><h5>Moti Yung</h5><p>Statement: IACR has overcome great difficulties recently, but challenges continue. It is important to move ahead carefully, assuring publication scale, growth, autonomy of different areas, advancing further Asiacrypt, assuring fairness, diversity, modernization, and preparing the next generation, while balancing careful tradeoffs. For all these challenges I was convinced to run again<br>Longer statement: none supplied<br>Home page: <a href="http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~moti/">http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~moti/</a></p></div><div class="candidate"><h5>Elaine Shi</h5><p>Statement: I have served on the PCs of various IACR conferences, and as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Cryptology. As a director, I will help promote the technology transfer of cryptography into real-world applications, and I will help maintain a culture that is welcoming to women and underrepresented minorities, to people with diverse backgrounds, just as it was welcoming to me.<br>Longer statement: <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/elaineshi-iacr/home">https://sites.google.com/view/elaineshi-iacr/home</a><br>Home page: <a href="https://cs.cmu.edu/~runting">https://cs.cmu.edu/~runting</a></p></div><div class="candidate"><h5>Britta Hale</h5><p>Statement: I have had the privilege of serving on the IACR board 2022-2023 and witnessing the community's participation and publication growth ahead of organizing CRYPTO'23. I would be honored to continue, with specific priorities on supporting effective research dissemination opportunities and the scientific goals of the diverse cryptographic communities of interest.<br>Longer statement: none supplied<br>Home page: <a href="https://faculty.nps.edu/haleb/">https://faculty.nps.edu/haleb/</a></p></div> <h2> How To Vote </h2> <p> The election will be conducted electronically from October 15th, 2023 (12pm UTC), to November 15th, 2023 (12pm UTC) using the <a href="http://heliosvoting.org/"> Helios </a> cryptographically-verifiable election system. Please see <a href="http://www.iacr.org/elections/eVoting/about-helios.html"> this overview of how the Helios system works </a>. </p> <p> 2023 members of the IACR (generally people who attended an IACR conference in 2022) will receive a customized invitation to vote from <tt> system@heliosvoting.org </tt> with a subject line <tt> "Vote: IACR 2023 Election" </tt> sent to their email address of record with the IACR. 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