Name: Dr. Burton S. Kaliski, Jr.
Company: RSA Security
Job Title: Vice President of Research
Bio: Dr. Burt Kaliski is chair of the office of the CTO and vice president of research at RSA Security, and chief scientist of its research center, RSA Laboratories, where he works to transform promising technologies into competitive advantages for the company and its customers.
Burt joined RSA Data Security in 1989 when it was a startup, and in 1991 helped launch RSA Laboratories as an academic environment within RSA Data Security. (RSA Data Security was acquired by Security Dynamics in 1996; the merged companies were renamed RSA Security.) Since 1991 he has been chief scientist of RSA Laboratories, leading a group of applied researchers and standards developers that has produced a range of new concepts and technologies. In 2004 he was promoted to the additional role of vice president of research for RSA Security.
Burt received his bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from MIT, where his research focused on cryptography. Prior to joining RSA Data Security, he was a visiting assistant professor of computer engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the International Association for Cryptologic Research.