Dominic Rizzo is a hardware security expert and open-source silicon pioneer whose work bridges chip-level security architecture and the policy frameworks — export controls, certification regimes, and liability structures — needed to govern trustworthy compute at scale. At IST, his work focuses on the role of open-source hardware in strengthening supply chain integrity, enabling hardware-based attestation of advanced compute, and building durable policy frameworks for secure silicon ecosystems.

Dominic is the founder and CEO of ZeroRISC, which commercializes open-source silicon security and supply chain integrity management. He also chairs GlobalPlatform’s Trusted Open Source Silicon Task Force, working to align open silicon with industry security standards. Previously, Dominic founded the OpenTitan project at Google in 2018 (the industry’s first open-source silicon root of trust) and led it through its first successful silicon tapeout, demonstrating that transparent, production-grade chip security can be delivered outside proprietary black-box models. His technical work spans hardware root of trust architecture, embedded post-quantum cryptography, side-channel evaluation methodology, and open-source governance for silicon ecosystems.

Dominic is a frequent speaker at industry and academic forums, including a keynote at CHES and presentations at DAC, Embedded World, and multiple RISC-V Summits. He is a co-author on work presented at Real World Crypto 2026 on hardware-accelerated lattice cryptography for embedded platforms. He holds an MS in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology and a BS in Aerospace Engineering from MIT.