Dr. Hilal Houssain is the associate manager for the Knowledge Solutions Team at the Islamic Development Bank Institute (IsDBI), turning ideas into platform-level innovations, designing, and developing real world state-of-the-art tech solutions using Blockchain & AI/ML for the financial and economic development challenges.

Prior to IsDBI, he held various positions in information security and cryptography for Financial Institutions, working within a broad field covering cryptographically secured transactions for chip-based payment cards, authentication/authorization, and related security countermeasures for attacks against cryptographic primitives/schemes.

He holds a PhD in Computer Science “Cryptography”, University Blaise Pascal, France, with five patents on cryptography and DLT, and several dozen articles on security and cryptography published in international journals and conferences.