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Volume 37, Number 1, 1998
Internet Computing
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Designing a generic payment service - Author bios

by J. L. Abad Peiro, N. Asokan, M. Steiner, and M. Waidner

Biographical sketches of authors

José L. Abad Peiro IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse 4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland (electronic mail: jla@zurich.ibm.com). Mr. Abad Peiro is a member of the network security research group at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. He received an M.S. in computer science from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, and finished the last year of telecommunications engineering in the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, France. Prior to joining IBM, he was a network manager in the communications division of the European Space Agency in Darmstadt, Germany. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science from the Catholic University of Louvain. Mr. Abad Peiro is a member of the ACM.

N. Asokan IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse 4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland (electronic mail: aso@zurich.ibm.com). Mr. Asokan has been a member of the network security research group at the IBM Zurich Laboratory since 1995. His research interests include network security, electronic commerce, and mobile computing. He received his B.Tech. in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, an M.S. in computer science from Syracuse University, and is a candidate for a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Waterloo. From 1990 to 1995, he was a software systems specialist at the University of Waterloo, working primarily on network security issues. Mr. Asokan is a member of the ACM.

Michael Steiner IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse 4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland (electronic mail: sti@zurich.ibm.com). Mr. Steiner is a research staff member of the network security research group at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, where he works on security in network management and electronic commerce. His interests include secure and reliable systems as well as cryptography. He received a Diploma in computer science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). Mr. Steiner is a member of the ACM.

Michael Waidner IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse 4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland (electronic mail: wmi@zurich.ibm.com). Dr. Waidner is the manager of the network security group at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. His research interests include cryptography, security, and all aspects of dependability in distributed systems. He has coauthored numerous publications in these fields. Dr. Waidner received his diploma and doctorate in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He is a member of the ACM, GI, IACR, and SIAM.