Current members at the Selmer Center
Professors/Associate Professors (7)
Lilya Budaghyan (Group Leader, Professor, Dr. habil.) Research interests: cryptographic Boolean functions and, more generally, discrete structures in mathematics and information theory
Andrey Bogdanov (Professor) Research interests: Cybersecurity and Cryptography (provable aspects of security, whitebox cryptography, side-channel cryptanalysis and countermeasures, etc.)
Tor Helleseth (Prof. Emeritus) Research interests: coding theory, cryptography, sequences, and discrete mathematics
Torleiv Kløve (Prof. Emeritus) Research interests: coding theory, in particular structure of codes, error detecting codes, permutation codes, codes for flash memories
Matthew Geoffrey Parker (Professor) Research interests: quantum computers, sequence design, Boolean functions, coding theory, information theory, communications systems, graph theory, cryptography, number theory, and efficient algorithms for VLSI
Igor A. Semaev (Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences from Russia) Research interests: applications of Number Theory, Algebra, Mathematical Statistics in cryptanalysis
Chunlei Li (Associate Professor) Research interests: cryptography, coding theory, discrete mathematics, signal design, and blockchain technology and its applications
Adjunct Professors/Consultants (6)
Claude Carlet (Consultant, Main affiliation: University of Paris 8) Research interests: Boolean functions, coding theory, and cryptography
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 Rønjom (Adjunct Associate Professor, Main affiliation: The Norwegian National Security Authority) Research interests: cryptology, discrete mathematics, computational algorithms
Øyvind Ytrehus (Adjunct Professor, Main affiliation: Simula@UiB) Research interests: coding theory, cryptology
Kjell Jørgen Hole (Adjunct Professor, Main affiliation: Simula@UiB) Research interests: information security
Researchers/Post-doctoral Fellows (3)
Marco Calderini Research interests: Boolean functions, cryptography, and discrete mathematics
Qian Guo Research interests: cryptography and coding theory
George Petrides Research Interests: cryptography, sequence, and discrete mathematics
PhDs (9)
Alessandro Budroni Research interests: cryptography, in particular cryptoanalysis on LWE, lattice/paring/identity – based cryptography
Diana Davidova Research interests: cryptographic Boolean functions
Ermes Franch Research interests: coding theory and cryptography
Wrya Kadir Research interests: cryptography, coding theory, discrete mathematics
Nikolay Stoyanov Kaleyski Research interests: cryptographic Boolean functions
Isaac Andrés Canales Martinez Research interests: cryptography (symmetric/asymmetric cryptanalysis, implementation) and security
Sachin Valera Research interests: quantum information theory
Irene Villa Research interests: cryptographic Boolean functions
Dan Zhang Research interests: quantum information theory, sequence design, and cryptography