Patrick Schaumont is a Dean's Excellence Professor and Joseph Samuel Satin Distinguished Fellow in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Previously, he was a staff researcher at IMEC in Belgium, and a faculty member at Virginia Tech. He has also been a visiting researcher at NICT in Japan and the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 in France, and a Radboud Excellence Initiative Visiting Faculty member at Radboud University, Netherlands. His research focuses on secure, efficient, and real-time embedded computing systems. Schaumont has co-chaired leading conferences in cryptographic and secure engineering, including CHES, HOST, ASHES, and FDTC. He serves as the Associate Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. In 2007, he received the NSF CAREER award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.