Current members at the Selmer Center
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Faculty Members
Professors/Associate Professors
![Lilya Budaghyan](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_sidebar/public/lilya.gif?itok=-hUDCVPe)
Lilya Budaghyan (Group Leader, Professor, Dr. habil.)
Research interests: cryptographic Boolean functions and, more generally, discrete structures in mathematics and information theory
![Tor](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_sidebar/public/Tor.gif?itok=_hsAaqWy)
Tor Helleseth (Prof. Emeritus)
Research interests: coding theory, cryptography, sequences, and discrete mathematics
![Nikolay](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_sidebar/public/Nikolay_0.gif?itok=Gdm9nkiM)
Nikolay Stoyanov Kaleyski (Associate Professor)
Research interests: cryptographic Boolean functions
![Torleiv](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_sidebar/public/klove.gif?itok=5cnk4Hnq)
Torleiv Kløve (Prof. Emeritus)
Research interests: coding theory, in particular structure of codes, error detecting codes, permutation codes, codes for flash memorie
![Chunlei](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_sidebar/public/Chunlei_1.gif?itok=IcEzrkix)
Chunlei Li (Associate Professor)
Research interests: cryptography, coding theory, discrete mathematics, signal design, and cybersecurity
![Igor](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_sidebar/public/Igor_Semaev_0.gif?itok=xL8KeThz)
Igor A. Semaev (Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences from Russia)
Research interests: applications of number theory, algebra, and mathematical statistics in cryptanalysis
![Matthew](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_main/public/Matthew_0.gif?itok=6X7ZSz3h×tamp=1548071096)
Matthew Parker (Prof. Emeritus)
Research interests: quantum computers, sequence design, Boolean functions, coding theory, information theory, communications systems, graph theory, cryptography, number theory
Adjunct Professors/Consultants
![Claude](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_sidebar/public/Claude_0.gif?itok=U-nc_DmG)
Claude Carlet (Consultant, Main affiliation: University of Paris 8)
Research interests: Boolean functions, coding theory, and cryptography
![svetla_nikova](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_main/public/svetla_nikova.png?itok=SLrvmyOu×tamp=1645004078)
Svetla Petkova-Nikova (Adjunct Associate Professor, Main affiliation: KU LEUVEN)
Research interests: Side channel resistant implementations, cryptography and coding theory
![Vincent](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_sidebar/public/vicentrijmen.png?itok=absO8bjE)
Vincent Rijmen (Adjunct Professor, Main affiliation: KU LEUVEN)
Research interests: design and cryptanalysis of symmetric cryptography primitives (block ciphers, hash functions, MACs, stream ciphers); and the underlying mathematical theories for them
![Sondre](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_sidebar/public/sondre.gif?itok=dqDReLc5)
Sondre Rønjom (Adjunct Professor, Main affiliation: The Norwegian National Security Authority)
Research interests: cryptology, discrete mathematics, computational algorithms
![Øvyind](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_sidebar/public/Ovyind.gif?itok=taFqyJ6d)
Øyvind Ytrehus (Adjunct Professor, Main affiliation: Simula@UiB)
Research interests: coding theory, cryptology
Lecturer
![Alexander_Kolosha](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_main/public/alexander_kolosha_3.png?itok=U3yRHPYS×tamp=1707127298)
Research Interests: cryptographic properties of Boolean functions, pseudo-random sequences, stream ciphers, cryptanalysis and cyber security
Postdocs and Researchers
![Mohit Pal](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_main/public/mohit_pal.png?itok=CPDdWXH5×tamp=1656939913)
Mohit Pal (Postdoc)
Research interests: cryptographic properties and threshold implementation of Boolean functions, discrete mathematics
![Palash Sarkar](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_main/public/palash.png?itok=7uCN603j×tamp=1643279272)
Palash Sarkar (Postdoc)
Research interests: sequences design for wireless communication
PhDs
![Ermes Franch](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_main/public/ermes.png?itok=6nCn9I4b×tamp=1582815747)
Research interests: coding theory and cryptography
![Samuele](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_main/public/circle-cropped_2.png?itok=enjdBdZ9×tamp=1628686090)
Samuele Andreoli
Research interests: cryptography and cryptographic Boolean functions
![Amund](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_main/public/amund_copy.png?itok=ze8Vd3fs×tamp=1710940062)
Research interests: security in embedded systems and side-channel attacks
![Enrico Piccione](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_main/public/enrico_piccione.png?itok=VZQVGMlo×tamp=1643294153)
Research interests: cryptographic Boolean functions for threshold implementations
![DianLi](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_main/public/screenshot_2021-09-20_at_09.06.43.png?itok=S_BIv85e×tamp=1632122024)
Dian Li
Research interests: Sequences and Cryptography
![Nadiia Ichanska](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_main/public/nadiia_ichanska.png?itok=4kY-QnlL×tamp=1643294368)
Research interests: cryptographic Boolean functions
![Martin Feussner](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_main/public/martin_feussner_1.png?itok=fJQVZy1w×tamp=1673869870)
Research interests: cryptography
Arne Sandrib
Research interests: zero-knowledge proof
![Photo_Joakim Sunde](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_main/public/jakim_1.png?itok=rOB31Vgp×tamp=1695972611)
Research interests: cryptographic Boolean functions
![Irene_Di_Muzio](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_main/public/untitled_copy_1.png?itok=vrO93UCX×tamp=1709548020)
Research interests: cryptography and cryptanalysis (with the main focus on Gröbner Basis)
![Martin_Grenouilloux](https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_main/public/martin_grenouilloux.png?itok=FwO1-Q5N×tamp=1716545582)
Martin Grenouilloux
Research interests: cryptography and cryptanalysis