Koen Simoens

I teach the module on AI risk & governance models in the Dutch version of the AI for DPOs training https://www.dp-institute.eu/nl/opleidingen/ai-voor-dpos/

Member of the mentor and adivsor network at start-up accelerator Birdhouse. Co-mentored the start-up Tenbeo (https://www.tenbeo.ai/) in cohort 15.

Daily management of a tech scale-up delivering an enterprise SaaS solution to multinational customers. Member of the executive team responsible for a hybrid team of 50 people including customer success, service delivery, product development, R&D and technology, infosec and compliance. Overseeing the Finance and HR functions.

CISO responsible for information security and privacy • Formed an infosec committee (PrivSec) that oversees governance, security operations, risk management and employee training • Achieved and maintained ISO 27001 & 27701 certification • Transformed a handful of copy-paste policies into documentation that is adequate for our organization • Maintain regulatory compliance and successfully passed 20+ client audits • Raised security awareness and trained the team annually on incident response

Architect and engagement lead in the Cyber Defence data protection practice • Cryptography, key management, data classification, rights management, DLP, privacy and GDPR, global IAM implementations • Data-centric solutions for export control compliance in aerospace, protecting intellectual property in manufacturing, personal data and PCI discovery in retail and hospitality, at-rest encryption and key management in financial services • Pre-sales support • Supervised consultants and external devs

Researcher in cryptology and information security focused on biometric template protection and privacy • Designed attacks & analysis algorithms against fuzzy encryption schemes • Represented the lab in hearings with the European Commission • Prepared proposals / secured 0.8 million euro in funding • Manage resources & contributed to EU and national research projects • Supervised 4 master theses and a programming project on keyboard sniffing • Public speaking at conferences

Development of an application to identify and measure PUFs (physical uncloneable functions) in ordinary PC components. PUFs are the equivalent of biometrics in hardware and refer to the unique physical properties of a device on which security can be based.

Dissertation on "Analysis of Fuzzy Encryption Schemes for the Protection of Biometric Data". Promotor: prof. Bart Preneel

Activities and societies: Student representative in permanent education committee and faculty council. Erasmus student exchange in Torino, Italy. Master thesis on "The development of tools to verify e-signatures according to different European technical specifications"