Antonio de la Piedra's background is related to Cryptographic Engineering and Embedded Security. He has participated in the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization project within the NewHope team and indifferent international and national-scale projects related to Privacy Enhancing Technologies. He obtained his PhD at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Belgium. Between 2013 and 2016 he worked as postdoctoral researcher at the Digital Security department of the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Currently, he works as Senior Cryptography Engineer at Kudelski Security.