Juan Soto
Juan Soto
Academic Director
Affiliation: BIFOLD
Since October 2020, Juan Soto serves as the Academic Director in the DIMA Group. He holds a M.S. in Computational Applied Mathematics from Stony Brook University and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Delaware. He has in addition completed graduate courses in statistical science and information security management at George Mason University and George Washington University, respectively. Over the years, his contributions at TU Berlin include lecturing, researching, mentoring, contributing to grant writing efforts, managing industrial projects, supervising theses, and the technical editing of research papers and grant proposals. He is originally from Long Island, New York and he is of Puerto Rican descent.
- RSA Award for Excellence in Public Policy for Leadership in Developing the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), 2001
- U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal for Leadership in Developing the AES (the highest honor granted for distinguished and exceptional performance), 2001
- Applied Mathematics
- Computer Science
- Cryptography
- Cybersecurity
- Data Science
- Symbolic Mathematical Computation
- Scientific Computing
- Statistical Computing
- Software Testing
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)