Trial lecture: Kolmogorov complexity and cryptography

05.05.2023
, 2:00 pm

People

Team members
36
All current students
18
Former MSc students
37
Former PhD students
11
PhD student

Alessandro Melloni

Privacy, Tor, Protocols

Visiting Professor

Alexandre Graell i Amat

Department of Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

Visiting Professor

Ángela I. Barbero

Department of Applied Mathematics, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain

Administrative Officer

Åsfrid Persson

HR, Social events & Health, Safety and Environment

Postdoctoral fellow

Carlo Brunetta

Theory of Cryptography, Provable Security, Cryptanalysis

Director

Carlos Cid

Symmetric-key cryptography, Cryptanalysis, Post-quantum cryptography, Cyber-economics

PhD student

Chung-Wei Weng

Millimeter wave 5G networks, Deep learning, Image processing, Privacy-preserving technologies

Master student

Eirik Bergesen

Head of Information theory dep.

Eirik Rosnes

Distributed computing and storage, Edge computing, Private information retrieval

PhD student

Hans Heum

Multi-user security degradation, Provable security, Quantum cryptography

Head of Cryptography dep.

Håvard Raddum

Cryptanalysis, MQ problem, SVP problem, FHE

Chief Research Scientist

Helger Lipmaa

Cryptographic protocols, E-voting, Pairing-based cryptography, Privacy-preserving blockchain, zk-SNARKs

Senior Research Scientist

Hsuan-Yin Lin

Information theory and coding, Information-theoretic security, Privacy-preserving technologies

PhD student

Irati Manterola Ayala

Cryptanalysis, Lattice-based cryptography and Post-quantum cryptography

PhD student

Issam Maarouf

DNA-based storage, Error-control codes, Coding Theory

Postdoctoral fellow

Janno Siim

Cryptographic protocols, Pairing-based cryptography, zk-SNARKs

Master student

Julia Wotzasek Pereira

Supervised in collaboration with Federal University of São Paulo

Postdoctoral Fellow

Kateryna Pavlyk

Algebraic structures in cryptography, Cryptographic assumptions, Zero-knowledge, Cryptographic usage of elliptic curves, Isogenies

Master student

Katrine Moksheim

Chief Research Scientist

Kjell Jørgen Hole

Antifragile systems and biologically driven AI

Master student

Liv Ingunn Dornfest

Postdoctoral fellow

Maiara Bollauf

Lattice codes, Source coding, Codes on graphs

Deputy Director

Mari Garaas Løchen

HR, Financial matters & Project Administration

Master student

Maria van der Reek Lidsheim

Postdoctoral Fellow

Martha Norberg Hovd

Homomorphic encryption, Security notions, Lattices

Chief Research Scientist

Martijn Stam

Symmetric modes, Protocols, Provable security, Implementation

Postdoctoral fellow

Morten Øygarden

Computational commutative algebra, Post-quantum cryptography, Multivariate cryptography

PhD student

Nicolas Costes

Power Analysis attacks, Implementation, Real world cryptography

Research Director

Øyvind Ytrehus

Information Theory for Secure Communications, Coding theory, Cryptanalysis

Master student

Palma Persson

PhD student

Roberto Parisella

Pairing-based cryptography, Zero-Knowledge protocols

Postdoctoral fellow

Sarah Obead

Private information retrieval, private computation and information theoretic privacy

Master student

Sebastian Kvamme

PhD student

Sigurd Jordal

Side-Channel Analysis

PhD student

Stian Husum

Side-Channel Analysis

Master student

Tor Kristian Ellingsen

Postdoctoral fellow

Wrya Karim Kadir

Rank metric codes, polynomials, decoding algorithms

Master student

Youjun Luo

Supervised in collaboration with Chalmers

Håvard Raddum

Head of Cryptography dep.

Maiara Bollauf

Postdoctoral fellow

Olav Lysne

Chair of the Board

Sondre Rønjom

Chief Scientist, Nasjonal Sikkerhetsmyndighet

Tone Gamlemshaug

Director of Innovation and Technology, Fana Sparebank

Fredrik Manne

Professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Bergen

Kristin Alsvik

Director of Organisational Development, Simula Research Laboratory

Petter Bjørstad

Professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Bergen

Yauhen Yakimenka

Postdoctoral fellow
Former Postdoctoral Fellow at Simula UiB, started working at NJIT as a Postdoctoral Fellow

Reent Schlegel

PhD student
Former PhD student and master student at Simula UiB (supervised in collaboration with Chalmers), started working at OHB digital services
Coding for distributed computing

Mohsen Toorani

Postdoctoral fellow
Former Postdoctoral Fellow at Simula UiB, started working at Lund University as Postdoctoral Fellow

Mithilesh Kumar

Postdoctoral fellow
Former Postdoctoral Fellow at Simula UiB

Prastudy Fauzi

Postdoctoral fellow
Former Postdoctoral Fellow at Simula UiB, started working at Nanyang Technological University as a Research Fellow

Bjørn Møller Greve

PhD student
Former PhD student at Simula UiB, started working at Forsvarets Forskningsinstitutt

Issam Maarouf

PhD student
Former master student at Simula UiB (supervised in collaboration with Chalmers), started working at Simula UiB as PhD student
Code-Based Post-Quantum Cryptography

Reent Schlegel

PhD student
Former PhD student and master student at Simula UiB (supervised in collaboration with Chalmers), started working at OHB digital services
Coding for distributed computing

Han Wang

Former master student at Simula UiB (supervised in collaboration with Chalmers), started working at Ericsson
Coding for DNA-Based Storage

Erik Vetle Larsen

Former master student at Simula UiB, started working at Netsecurity AS

Markus Ragnhildstveit

Former master student at Simula UiB, started working at Sopra Steria

Anton Frigård

Former master student at Simula UiB (supervised in collaboration with Chalmers), started working at SIGMA Technology
Coding for mobile edge computing

Svetlana Halnes

Former master student at Simula UiB, started working at CGI

Ketil Mikalsen Kvifte

Former master student at Simula UiB

Håkon Gjeraker Østerhus

Former master student at Simula UiB, started working at DNB

Isabel Thevahi Francis

Former master student at Simula UiB, started working at DNB

Espen Johnsen

Former master student at Simula UiB, started working at Knowit Solutions

Maximiliano Vela

Former master student at Simula UiB, started working at JP Morgan Chase & Co

Kavita Bhamra

Former master student at Simula UiB, started working at Norwegian Tax Administration

Alexandre Vivmond

Former master student at Simula UiB, started working at Evry

Valentyna Kazymyrova

Former master student at Simula UiB, started working at Aker Solutions

Daniel Selvik

Former master student at Simula UiB, started working at Sparebanken Vest

Kristian Ingebretsen

Former master student at Simula UiB, started working at Evry

Raymond Aarseth

Former master student at Simula UiB, started working at Basefarm

Jan Erik Eide

Former master student at Simula UiB, started working at Infodoc

Nicolas Costes

PhD student
Former intern at Simula UiB, started working at Simula UiB as PhD student

Kanav Gupta

Former intern at Simula UiB

Rune Reimertz

Former intern at Simula UiB

Ditlef Diseth

Former intern at Simula UiB, started working at Finn

Ashutosh Ahelleya

Former intern at Simula UiB

Gennaro Avitabile

Former intern at Simula UiB, started working at the University of Salerno as PhD student

Einar Hegge

Former intern at Simula UiB

Asbjørn Olav Orvedal

Project assistant
Former intern at Simula UiB

Simen Lund Wærstad

Former intern at Simula UiB

Margrete Saugestad

Former intern at Simula UiB

Annika Torsvik

Former intern at Simula UiB