Biography
Education:
University Department of Mathematics
Eindhoven University of Technology, 1966-1971
Caltech / JPL, January-March 1971
Bell Telephone Labs., April-August 1971
Masters degree TUE, December 1971, cum laude
On Weights in Codes
Doctors degree TUE, 6-1-1976
Uniformly Packed Codes
promotor: Prof.dr. J.H. van Lint
Positions at Eindhoven University of Technology:
Research assistant from 1-1-1972 until 6-30-1976,
Assistant professor from 7-1-1976 until 10-31-1980,
Associate professor from 11-1-1980 until 5-31-1992,
(only 3 days per week from 9-15-1986),
Full professor from 6-1-1992.
Further positions in the past:
§ Visiting Assistant Professor in Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology during the academic year 1976/1977.
§ Visiting Professor in Mathematics at the Catholic University of Leuven during the academic year 1982 / 1983.
§ Visiting Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology from Sept. 1984 until March 1985.
§ Visiting Scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center, from June until Aug. 1986. Also from 2-8-1987 until 2-22-1987, from 3-13-1988 until 3-27-1988, from 7-10-1989 until
8-10-1989 and from 2-24-1991 until 3-9-1991.
§ Full Professor (2 days per week) at the Dept. of Technical Sciences, Open University, Heerlen, the Netherlands from 9-15-86 until 6-30-1992.
§ Visiting Professor in Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology from April 1989 until July 1989.
§ Visiting Professor in Electrical Engineering at the University of Pretoria, from 7-20-1991 until 9-7-1991.
§ Visiting Professor in Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology from August until December 1998.
§ Visiting Professor in the Department of Computing at Macquarie University, Sydney, from April until July 2005.
Award:
§ ϰſֱ Fellow, January 1, 2000, For Contributions to Coding Theory and Cryptology .
Academic duties:
q Associate Editor for Coding Theory of the ϰſֱ Transactions on Information Theory, from
1-1-1988 until 12-31-1990.
q Associate Editor of Designs, Codes and Cryptography, from 1-1-1991.
q Board of Governors of ϰſֱ Information Theory Society, from 4-1-1991 until 4-1-1997.
q Associate Editor of the Journal of Combinatorics, Information & System Sciences, from
1-1-1992.
q Scientific director of the research school EIDMA (Euler Institute for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications), from September 1993.
q Council Member of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI), 2001-2003.
q Advisory Editor of Advances In Mathematics Of Communications , from 1-1-2007.
q Scientific director of EIPSI (Eindhoven Institute for the Protection of Systems and Information), since 10-1-2007.
q Editor of Asian-European Journal of Mathematics , from 1-1-2008.
q Associate editor for Journal of the Indonesian Mathematical Society for the period of April 2007 – December 2008.
Books en Special Volumes:
- Henk C.A. van Tilborg, An Introduction to Cryptology , Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston etc., 1988.
- P.J. Cameron and H.C.A. van Tilborg, Guest Editors of A Collection of Contributions in Honour of Jack van Lint , Discrete Mathematics Vol. 106/107, 9-1-1992.
Also in Topics in Discrete Mathematics 7, North Holland, Amsterdam etc., 1992. - Henk van Tilborg, Error-Correcting Codes - a First Course , Studentlitteratur, Lund, 1993.
- Henk C.A. van Tilborg, Fundamentals of Cryptology; A Professional Reference and Interactive Tutorial , Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston etc., 1999.
- C. Carlet (Guest-editor), P. Charpin, M. Girault, G. Kabatiansky and H.C.A. van Tilborg (Co-guest editors), Discrete Applied Mathematics, Special Issue on Coding and Cryptography , Vol. 111, Numbers 1-2, Pages 1-218, 2001.
- M. Blaum, P.G. Farrell and H.C.A. van Tilborg (Editors), Information, Coding and Mathematics , Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston etc., ISBN 1-4020-7079-9, 378 p., 2002.
- J.E.J. Prins, P.M.A. Ribbers, H.C.A. van Tilborg, A.F.L. Veth and J.G.L. van de Wees (Editors), Trust in Electronic Commerce , Kluwer Law International, The Hague etc., ISBN 90-411-1845-4, 312 p., 2002.
- Henk C.A. van Tilborg, Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security , Springer, ISBN: 0-387-23473-X, 684 p., 2005.
- Х.К.А. ван Тилборг, ОСНОВЫ КРИПТОЛОГИИ, Мосва <<Мир>>, 2006 (translation of 4. by И.О. Корякова).
- A. Blokhuis, H.D.L. Hollmann, W.M. Kantor, and H.C.A. van Tilborg, Special Issue in Honor of Jacobus van Lint, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 113, 2006, p. 1593-1821.
Contact Information
Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
Eindhoven University of Technology
Den Dolech 2
5612 AZ Eindhoven
the Netherlands