Gorka Irazoqui received his BSC (2011) and MSC (2013) in telecommunications from Tecnun Universidad de Navarra, in Spain. He will start his 4th year as a PhD student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts under the supervision of Thomas Eisenbarth. His research topics are microarchitectural side-channel attacks and countermeasures in the cloud. He spent the summer of 2016 doing an internship at Intel.