Jan Camenisch

Staff Researcher

Jan is one of cryptography's most consequential builders, a researcher who doesn't just advance theory but drives it into the real world. Based in Zurich, he is globally recognized for foundational contributions spanning anonymous credentials, secure multi-party computation, privacy-preserving identity, verifiable computation, and trusted hardware security. His fingerprints are on infrastructure billions of people rely on: the Direct Anonymous Attestation protocol he pioneered in 2004 became a Trusted Computing Group standard and is embedded in TPM chips worldwide. After nearly two decades leading privacy and cryptography research at IBM Research, Jan brought that same ambition to the DFINITY Foundation, where as CTO he and his team designed, built, launched, and evolved the Internet Computer Protocol, rethinking blockchain and secure distributed computing from the ground up. Now, after a brief chapter at Subzero Labs, Jan joins Category Labs to push the boundaries of cryptography, privacy, and blockchain once more.