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Current members at the Selmer Center

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Faculty Members

Professors/Associate Professors

Lilya Budaghyan

Lilya Budaghyan (Professor, Dr. habil.)

Selmer Center Contact Person

Group Leader for Mathematical Methods of Cryptography

Research interests: cryptographic Boolean functions and, more generally, discrete structures in mathematics and information theory

Tor

Tor Helleseth (Prof. Emeritus) 

Research interests: coding theory, cryptography, sequences, and discrete mathematics

Nikolay

Nikolay Stoyanov Kaleyski (Associate Professor) 

Group Leader for Algorithmic and Computational Methods

 

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Oleksandr Kholosha 

Group Leader for Cyber Security

Research interests: cryptography and network security

Torleiv

Torleiv Kløve  (Prof. Emeritus) 

Research interests: coding theory, in particular structure of codes, error detecting codes, permutation codes, codes for flash memorie

Chunlei

Chunlei Li (Professor) 

Group Leader for Reliable Communications

Research interests: cryptography, coding theory, signal design, cybersecurity and discrete mathematics

Igor

Igor A. Semaev (Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences from Russia) 

Group Leader for Cryptography and Cryptanalysis

Research interests: applications of number theory, algebra, and mathematical statistics in cryptanalysis

Adjunct Professors/Consultants

 

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Claude Carlet (Consultant, Main affiliation: University of Paris 8

Research interests: Boolean functions, coding theory, and cryptography

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Lejla Batina (Adjunct Professor, Main affiliation: Radboud University, The Netherlands) 

Research interests: applied cryptography and embedded systems security

Vincent

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

Sondre Rønjom (Adjunct Professor, Main affiliation: The Norwegian National Security Authority

Research interests: cryptology, discrete mathematics, computational algorithms

Øvyind

Øyvind Ytrehus (Adjunct Professor, Main affiliation: Simula@UiB

Research interests: coding theory, cryptology

Research Interests: cryptographic properties of Boolean functions, pseudo-random sequences, stream ciphers, cryptanalysis and cyber security

Postdocs and Researchers

 

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Mohit Pal (Postdoc)

Research interests: cryptographic properties and threshold implementation of Boolean functions, discrete mathematics

Palash Sarkar
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Palash Sarkar (Postdoc)

Research interests: sequences design for wireless communication

PhDs 

Ermes Franch
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Ermes Franch

Research interests: coding theory and cryptography

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Samuele Andreoli

Research interests: cryptography and cryptographic Boolean functions

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Amund Askeland 

Research interests: security in embedded systems and side-channel attacks

Enrico Piccione
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Enrico Piccione 

Research interests: cryptographic Boolean functions for threshold implementations

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Dian Li 

Research interests: Sequences and Cryptography

Nadiia Ichanska
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Nadiia Ichanska 

Research interests: cryptographic Boolean functions

Martin Feussner
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Martin Feussner

Research interests: cryptography

Arne Sandrib

Research interests: zero-knowledge proof 

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Joakim Hauger Sunde

Research interests: cryptographic Boolean functions

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Irene Di Muzio

Research interests: cryptography and cryptanalysis (with the main focus on Gröbner Basis)

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Martin Grenouilloux

Research interests: cryptography and cryptanalysis

Emre Balci

Research interests: blockchain, zero-knowledge proof

Niki Spithaki

Research interests: cryptographic Boolean functions