Awards

I’m very proud to have received some awards recognising my work. I was fortunate to have been working with so many bright people, without whom none of this would have been possible. Thank you all!

  • 2024 Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography together with Anna Lysyanskaya for “the development of efficient Anonymous Credentials.”
  • 2018 elected Fellow of the ACM.
  • 2018 IFIP Kristian Beckman for “Significant contributions to the field of Information security and privacy.”
  • 2017 elected Fellow of the IACR (international association of cryptologic research).
  • 2016 IBM Master Inventor (renewed).
  • 2014 ACM CSS Test of time award for “Direct anonymous Attestation.” Ernest F. Brickell, Jan Camenisch, and Liqun Chen.
  • 2014 IFIP Silver Core “in appreciation of services rendered to IFIP.”
  • 2013 elevated to Fellow of the IEEE.
  • 2013 Best student paper award ESORICS 2013 for “Practical and Employable Protocols for UC-Secure Circuit Evaluation over Zn.”  Jan Camenisch, Robert Enderlein, Victor Shoup.
  • 2013 IEEE Computer Society Technical Award “For outstanding theoretical work on privacy-enhancing cryptographic protocols and his leadership in their practical realisation.”
  • 2012 ACM CSS Test of time award for “Design and implementation of the idemix anonymous credential system.” Jan Camenisch, Els Van Herreweghen.
  • 2012 European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant for “Personal Cryptography.”
  • 2011 Asiacrypt Best Paper Award for “A Framework for Practical Universally Composable Zero-Knowledge Protocols.” Jan Camenisch, Stephan Krenn, Victor Shoup. 
  • 2010 ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award “For outstanding theoretical work on privacy-enhancing cryptographic protocols and his leadership in their practical realisation.”
  • 2010 IBM Master Inventor.
  • 2010 European Identity Award in the category “Best Innovation” from Kuppinger Cole for “Identity Mixer.”
  • 2009 Elected as Member of IBM’s Academy of Technology.
  • 2009 GI (German Computer Science Association). Innovation Award “for anonymous credentials on a JavaCard.” Jan Camenisch, Thomas Gross, Victor Shoup.
  • 2008 HP-IAPP award in the category Privacy Innovation Technology Award for “privacy-enhancing identity management.”
  • 2005 IBM Research Division award for “Enterprise Privacy Architecture.”
  • 2004 European Information Security Award, category Research & Development, for “the work on Direct Anonymous Attestation with the trusted computing group (TCG) consortium.”
  • 2004 IBM Research Division award for “Direct Anonymous Attestation.”
  • 2003 IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for “Privacy-enhanced PKI – idemix.”