Dr. Vladislav Mladenov

Vladislav Mladenov works as a security researcher at the Chair of Network and Data Security at the Ruhr University Bochum since 2012. In his dissertation he analyzed the security of Single Sign-On protocols such as SAML 2.0, OpenID, OpenID Connect and OAuth and discovered various vulnerabilities. After completing his doctorate Vladislav Mladenov works as a … Read more

Joris Schellekens

Joris Schellekens is the CEO and founder of borb, the company behind the pure Python pdf library that goes by the same name. Joris has a passion for machine learning and AI, and applying those techniques to new fields.

Maksim Bezrukov

Maksim Bezrukov is leading iText pdf2Data backend team. He also contributed to iText 7 Core product line. Prior to the work at iText Maksim was one of the key developers of veraPDF. Maksim holds Master’s degree in Physical & Mathematical Sciences from the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

Shawn Gaither

Shawn Gaither has been working on PDF structure for 25 years at Adobe, and has led efforts in OCR, eBooks, accessibility, document comparison, form field detection, and most recently structure detection for Liquid Mode on Acrobat mobile.

Xiong Longfei

Xiong Longfei is a deputy technical director of Kingsoft Office. He works in artificial intelligence for several years and is a committee member of the CSIG(China Society of Image and Graphics). His team focuses on computer vision technology. He recieved the master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the University of Kiel, Germany, … Read more

Richard Cohn

Principal Scientist at Adobe and co-author of the first PDF specification.