Bo-Yin Yang's Statement of Candidacy to the IACR Board of Directors:

Image byyang I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me for your trust and hope to continue serving you well.

20 years ago I started my IACR publication trail with CHES and PKC, and still represent those subcommunities. Since then I have been an active member of our community with a long service record:

To those who were in Taipei for PKC 2016, CHES 2017, QCrypt 2022, Asiacrypt 2022 or TCC 2023: I consider myself good at conference logistics, which is part of my contributions. I hope you enjoyed (one of these events). I also learned and feel experienced and adept at running people events. Simultaneously, working on these conferences got me into closer contact with all of you, letting me understand relationships and subcommunities in the IACR and how we work together a lot better.

I think running conferences, program committees, and planning conferences long-term combines to gives me a rare multi-faceted, kaleidoscopic perspective of the IACR and its people, the better to serve you with.


I am ready to continue on the Board of Directors as a long-term commitment to the IACR. If elected again to the BoD, I will
  1. promote inclusiveness (geographic and cultural inclusiveness in our events, but also every kind of inclusiveness, including of all areas of cryptographic research) and internal cohesion in our community;
  2. actively embrace and bring back to the IACR real-world cryptographers who currently find it necessary to publish at security venues;
  3. encourage openness and reproducibility: more published code, artifact submissions, and formal verification of code, proofs, and protocols; and
  4. continue to contribute my energy and resources to prop up the already-stretched-thin IACR volunteer workforce.

More information

Recent Program Committee Experiences:
{PQCrypto, SAC}'16, {ACNS, PQCrypto, SAC}'17, {PQCrypto,Asiacrypt,SAC}'18, PQCrypto'19, {PQCrypto,Indocrypt}'20. {IWSEC,Asiacrypt,PQCrypto}'21, {PKC'22,Eurocrypt,PQCrypto}'22., {PQCrypto,ACMCCS}'23, {Crypto,Asiacrypt}'24
Editorial Boards:
TCHES 2018, 20-22, 24-25 (this editorial board is the CHES PC).
Conference Organization:
PQCrypto Steering Comm since 2008, Asiacrypt Steering Comm since 2019. CHES Steering Comm since 2023.

For Even more information including publications:
see https://troll.iis.sinica.edu.tw/by-publ.