Professor Aggelos Kiayias, Chair in Cyber Security and Privacy at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics, has been named a 2025 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ACM Fellowship is one of the highest honours in computing. Fellows are selected by their peers for achieving “remarkable results through technical innovations and/or service to the field” and represent roughly the top one per cent of ACM’s global membership.Recognition for contributions to cyber security and cryptographyProfessor Kiayias is recognised for his contributions to the principles and practice of cyber security and cryptography. His research spans computer security, privacy, applied and foundational cryptography, with a particular focus on blockchain technologies, distributed systems, electronic voting, secure multiparty computation, and privacy and identity management. Professor Aggelos Kiayias Professor Kiayias is Director of the Blockchain Technology Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh. He also serves as Chief Scientist at blockchain technology company Input Output.His research has been supported by major funding bodies in Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States, including the European Research Council, Horizon 2020, UK Research and Innovation, the US National Science Foundation, and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology.Over the course of his career, Professor Kiayias has received a number of major individual distinctions, including an ERC Starting Grant, a Marie Curie Fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award, and a Fulbright Fellowship. In 2021 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and in 2024 he was awarded the BCS Lovelace Medal.He has also held senior leadership roles within the international cryptography and security research community, serving as programme chair for major conferences including Eurocrypt, Real World Crypto, the RSA Conference Cryptographers’ Track, Financial Cryptography and Data Security, and the Public-Key Cryptography Conference. About the ACM Fellows programme ACM announced 71 new Fellows for 2025, drawn from universities, industry, and research institutions across 14 countries. The new Fellows will be formally recognised at an awards banquet in San Francisco in June 2026.The Association for Computing Machinery is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, with more than 100,000 members worldwide. Its Fellows programme was established in 1993 to recognise outstanding contributions to computing research and practice. Related links Link to Aggelos Kiayias' personal website Link to Association for Computing Machinery website Publication date 21 Jan, 2026
