Kaisa Nyberg

From mathematics to cryptology

Kaisa Nyberg is a Finnish cryptographer and professor emerita at Aalto University. Aalto records that she began cryptography research with the Finnish Defence Forces in 1987, later worked at Nokia, and joined the Helsinki University of Technology faculty in 2005.

Mobile security and academic leadership

Aalto credits Nyberg and N. Asokan with a Bluetooth pairing method developed at Nokia and standardized with Microsoft cryptologists. Her institutional profile records her leadership of Aalto's cryptography research group through 2016. Her work on the properties of Boolean functions and on applied protocols connects mathematical analysis to the security of deployed systems.

Timeline

• 1987Begins cryptography research with the Finnish Defence Forces.
• 1998Moves to Nokia, where her work includes mobile-security research.
• 2005Joins Helsinki University of Technology, later Aalto University, as professor of cryptology.
• 2016Retires as professor emerita after leading Aalto's cryptography research group.