René Peralta obtained a B.A. in Economics from Hamilton College, an M.S. in

Mathematics from SUNY Binghamton, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from

the University of California at Berkeley. For the next 20 years, he held various

positions in academia, mostly as a professor of cryptology, algorithmics, and

computational number theory. In 2005, he moved to NIST from Yale University. He is

currently a scientist with the Computer Security Division. Among the NIST projects

he is currently involved in are Multi-Party Threshold Cryptography, Circuit Complexity,

The NIST Randomness Beacon, Privacy Enhancing Cryptography, and

Post-Quantum Cryptography.