Candidate Profile

Hi everyone, my name is Philipp Jovanovic. My motivation to apply for the Arbitrum Security Council is that I am excited by opportunities that allow me to learn about and contribute to cybersecurity-focused projects and endeavors. While I have no track record in working with Arbitrum (yet), I am eager to get to know the project and community and hope to be able contribute to maintaining Arbitrum's security thanks to my extensive experience in the field of cybersecurity.

• +12 years of experience in cybersecurity in academia and industry
• Associated Professor in Information Security at University College London
• Published +35 peer-reviewed papers at top-tier academic venues on topics in applied cryptography, distributed systems security, privacy-enhancing technologies, cryptocurrencies, infrastructure security, etc.
• Co-founder and partner at proof-of-stake validator project ZKValidator
• Co-creator and co-operator at the distributed randomness beacon service drand
• Contributor to various SNARK trusted setup ceremonies (such as the one for the Plumo ultra-light client on Celo)
• Consultant to various industry projects on cybersecurity topics
• Trainer of countless students and industry professionals (including at Google and Facebook) on matters around applied cryptography and distributed systems security
• Experience with OpSec tools and techniques (including 2FA, full disk encryption, hardware tokens, hardware wallets, incident response apps, password managers, VPNs, etc.)

If you have any further questions about my profile or the projects I am involved with, I'd be happy to have a chat so feel free to reach out any time.

UCL, ZKValidator, drand