Profile
Kazue Sako
Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Waseda University
Short Bio
After receiving her B.S. in mathematics from Kyoto University, she joined NEC Central Research Labs where she engaged in studying secure cryptographic protocols.
Since April 2020, She is a Professor at the Department of Information Science and Engineering, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering, at Waseda University.
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Academic Services
IACR World Cryptography Real World Crypto Steering Committee
IACR Test-of-Time Award 2022 Selection Commitee Member
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing Associate Editor
AsiaCCS 2022 The 17th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security Program Co-chair
IACR Real World Crypto RWC 2022 Program Commitee Member
CANS2025 24th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security Programme Committee
Financial Cryptography and Data security Steering Committee
FC2025 「Financial Cryptography and Data security」General co-chair
Past Services
The Casper Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2021 PET Award Commitee Member
IACR Public Key Cryptography Steering Committee (2018-2020)
ACM Advances in Financial Technologies - AFT 2020 Program Committee Member
IPSJ Director
JSIAM 26th President
IEICE Vice Chair (2017-2018)
ACNS 2021 “Applied Cryptography and Network Security” Program Co-chair
ESORICS 2019 “European Symposium on Information and Computer Security” Program Co-Chair
IACR PKC2019 “Public Key Cryptography” Program Co-Chair
FC2018 “Financial Cryptography and Data Security” Program Co-Chair
FC2013 “Financial Cryptography and Data Security” General Chair
CT-RSA 2016 “RSA Conference Cryptographer's Track” Program Chair
IACR Asiacrypt 2012 Program Co-Chair
IACR Asiacrypt 2013 Program Co-Chair
AsiaCCS 2022 program co-chair
RWC 2023 General Chair
Other Works
MyData Japan Vice Chair
Sovrin Foundation Trustee (-June 2020)
Science Council of Japan Member (2014-2026)
Financial Services Agency, Financial System Council Working Group on the Crypto-Assets System, (July 2025-)
Digital Agency “Expert Panel on Governance in Leveraging Verifiable Credentials (VC/VDC)” Committee member（March 2025-）
Digital Agency “The Technical Working Group of the Advisory Council on the Identification of Issues in Attribute Certification” (December 2025-)
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry “Pilot Project for Building Digital Public Goods Using Web 3.0 & Blockchain Application” Special Adviser in the Pilot project（June 2024-）
JST Presto Advisor (IoT) (2019 - March 2025)
JST Presto Advisor (Math) (2019 - March 2025)
Key and Advanced Technology R&D through Cross Community Collaboration Program "Cryptographic Technologies Supporting Secure Data Flow (Advanced Cryptography)" Subcommittee member (March 2025-)
Metropolitan Police Department, Consultative Meeting on Measures Against Money Laundering through the Abuse of Financial Services, Committee Member(September 2025-)
Past Talks
FINSUM “Blockchain-based Financial System” (Moderator) (2019/9/5)
International Conference on Big Data Analytics (ICBDA) Keynote “Digital Identity, Verifiable Credentials and Cryptography” (2024/3)
ProveSec 2024 Keynote “Cryptography to support our Digital Society” (2024/9)
Joint ITU/WHO Workshop on “Future of Verifiable Health Credentials Beyond COVID-19” 「Selective disclosure for privacy」(2024/9)
Post Shonan-Montreal workshop “Unlinkable Selective Disclosure for Verifiable Credentials” (2024/11)
Dagstuhl Seminar: Building Privacy-Preserving Technologies of Societal Impact “How People would trust a government based on its choice of a digital identity wallet?” (2025/7)
Dagstuhl Seminar: Trustworthy Evidence-Based Elections ”Boardroom voting with their smartphones: Experiencing Verifiability” (2025/10)
Asia Privacy Bridge 2025 ”Trust but Verify: A Cryptographer's View on AI Governance and Digital Identity” (2025/10)