Sofia Celi

Brave / University of Bristol

Sofia Celi is a senior cryptography and security researcher at Brave and the University of Bristol, specializing in privacy-enhancing technologies, lattice-based and multivariate-based cryptography, post-quantum cryptography, and real-world applications of zero-knowledge proofs. She co-authored the PQC signature scheme “MAYO”, submitted to NIST. Beyond research, she serves on the European Review Board at BlackHat, she is member of the Advisory Council at the Open Technology Fund (OTF) and hold various leadership roles within the IETF, IRTF, and W3C.