Alex Tereshkin is an experienced reverse engineer and an expert in UEFI security, Windows kernel and hardware virtualization, specializing in rootkit technologies and kernel exploitation. He has been involved in the BIOS and SMM security research since 2008. He is currently working as a Principal Offensive Security Researcher at NVIDIA. He has done significant work in the field of virtualization-based malware and Windows kernel security. He is a co-author of a few courses taught at major security conferences and a co-author of the first UEFI BIOS and Intel ME exploits. Alex holds a master's degree in Applied Mathematics and a PhD degree in Information Security from Southern Federal University in Russia.