The Technical Advisory Council (TAC) provides oversight of the Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance technical communities. Its functions include:
Norman Ashley is a Technical Lead Engineer at Cisco Systems in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. At Cisco, he develops libraries that enable others to implement security features within various products. He is also a contributor to the Open Quantum Safe project and sees its progression into the Linux Foundation as an opportunity to benefit the greater community.
Norman enjoys helping and seeing organizations fulfill their mission and live out their values. It is his belief that the highest form of serving is through agape.
A devoted husband to his wife, an ever-present Dad to his daughters, family time is priority. An avid footballer, Norman dreams of someday playing in a coed league with his daughters. Also, at some point to be tolerated by either of them on the tennis court as their doubles partner. A favorite quote and principle is “Being rather than seeming.”
Brian Jarvis is a Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services. There, he leads the post-quantum cryptography team which is focused on Amazon’s migration to PQC. He also spent time as a developer and manager within AWS Security. Brian is an alumni of the Cryptographic Engineering Research Group at George Mason University and Vanderbilt University.
Matthias is based in Taipei, Taiwan, and represents the Taiwanese post-quantum cryptography startup, Chelpis Quantum Tech. He has made significant contributions to the PQ Code Package project and the mlkem-native implementations of ML-KEM, alongside Hanno Becker. Within the cryptographic implementations community, Matthias is widely recognized for his past work as a co-creator of the PQClean project and as the driving force behind PQM4—an influential library for post-quantum implementations on ARM Cortex-M4 devices.
Aditya Koranga is the Co-Founder of NgKore Foundation, a non-profit organisation he started with his friends in 2022 with the mission to create a shared platform for India’s youth and raw talents who need technical and financial support so that young innovators can channel their energy into building, experimenting, failing, and inventing new technologies. At NgKore, Aditya leads the overall security and deployment systems.
With expertise in transitioning R&D into enterprise-ready solutions, Aditya focuses on aligning innovation with real-world market needs. He previously served as Chief Security Architect for a telecom based small business and currently represents the Small Businesses and Individuals group on the Technical Advisory Committee at OpenSSL.
Guided by his grandfather’s teaching—“the best time to help is when you have the least to give”—Aditya believes in supporting others without expectation.
Outside of his professional work, Aditya is also a writer, poet, and occasional weekend rapper, who oddly enough enjoys reading RFCs before bed.
Max (or Dr Max) is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and leader for the OSS teams contributing to all things open Quantum and Serverless.
Previously, Max was a principal engineer at IBM RTP for the worldwide point-of-sale standard: JavaPOS. Then at IBM Research-Almaden, he was a research scientist and did pioneering work on cloud computing and platform-as-a-service.
Max joined the IBM Cloud Labs in 2014 as Chief Architect for Cloud Innovations, leading IBM’s team for Cloud Foundry OSS then Knative/Kubernetes. As of 2024 Max rejoined IBM Research to help lead the quantum services, quantum open source, and quantum safe.
Max’s main expertise are in software engineering and distributed systems. Max published 100+ refereed papers with citations of 7500+ on GoogleScholar, 100s of blogs, and hold 21 issued patents. Max is an avid amateur photographer and triathlete; bragging rights: 2 award winning photos with Leica Society in 2021, 10 half Ironman, one full Ironman, and 20+ marathons.
Max has a master’s and PhD degrees in computer science and various executive certificates in AI and quantum.
Sophie Schmieg is a cryptography engineer at Google, where she leads the ISE Crypto team. As part of her work in ISE Crypto she is responsible for Google’s transition to post-quantum cryptography.
Sophie has a PhD in algebraic geometry from the university of Ulm.
Andreas Schade is a member of the Platform Crypto and Security Group at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory His current research focusses on Cryptography Bill of Materials (CBOM) and Post-Quantum Security. He is a co-author of CBOMkit and serves as a member of the Post Quantum Cryptography Alliance (PQCA). Andreas’ background is computer science in particular distributed systems and applications management, which was also the topic of his dissertation. Throughout his career in IBM Research, he has worked on communication platforms for medical environments, virtual markets and service trading, pervasive computing, device profiles and delivery context information, autonomous tracking devices, authorization languages, and threat management. He holds a diploma degree and a doctoral degree in Computer Science, both from Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.
