Michiel Van Beirendonck

Michiel Van Beirendonck is the Co-Founder and CEO of Belfort Labs, a KU Leuven spin-off specializing in encrypted computation.

Michiel is the principal architect of Belfort's hardware platform, which utilizes a novel accelerator for Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to process data without decryption.

Michiel Van Beirendonck's expertise in cryptographic hardware and lattice-based cryptography stems from his PhD at KU Leuven, where Michiel led technical breakthroughs underpinning Belfort's core architecture.

Michiel is the inventor of Belfort's patented streaming architecture, contributed to DARPA's DPRIVE program, and won the inaugural ZPrize.

Prior to co-founding Belfort Labs, Michiel gained professional experience at Microsoft Research and Rambus.

Currently, Michiel is focused on making encrypted compute practical at scale for high-stakes domains such as defense, genomics, healthcare, finance, and government.

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