Convening to Act
Accelerating Adoption of Quantum Resistant Cryptography
March 2025
Dr. J.R. Rao
J.R. Rao is an IBM Fellow and CTO, Security Research for IBM. The Security Research team comprises over 200 researchers working in areas such as Cybersecurity, AI Security, Cloud and Systems Security, Information Security, and Cryptography.
JR works closely with commercial and government customers, academic partners, and IBM business units to drive new and innovative technologies into definitive industry standards and IBM's products and services. The goal of his research is to significantly raise the bar on the quality of security while simultaneously easing the overhead of developing and deploying secure solutions.
He has published widely and holds numerous US and European patents. He obtained his Doctorate degree from University of Texas at Austin, a Master's degree from State University of New York at Stony Brook, and a Bachelor of Technology degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
