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Leendert van Doorn, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Leendert van Doorn is a senior manager at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center where he manages the secure systems and security analysis departments. He received his Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam where he worked on the design and implementation of microkernels. Nowadays his research interests include physically secure coprocessors, trusted systems, and virtualization. Leendert is actively involved in IBM's virtualization strategy, he is one of the IBM open virtualization architects, and leading IBM's secure hypervisor initiatives. Despite all these distractions, he still contributes code to the Xen open source hypervisor such as the integrated support code for AMD Virtualization (formerly Pacifica) and Intel VT-x. When conference calls and meetings are getting too much for him, he is known to find refuge in his office at CMU.