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The Selmer Center has a long tradition in conducting research at a high international level, and good experience and research environment in training Ph.D. students and hosting visiting Ph.D. students. The Selmer Center has organized several winter/summer schools and seminars for Ph.D. students:
- Finse Winter School on Information Security, Finse, Norway 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 (in collaboration with Øyvind Ytrehus from Simula@UiB)
- Bergen-Crypt, Bergen, June 22-26, 2015
- Nordic Research Training course – Cryptology and Its Applications, Bergen, June 10-18, 2004
- Norsk Kryptoseminar, Bergen, Nov. 10-11, 2003
During the three decades, there are in total of 40 Ph.D. projects completed in the Selmer Center, or the previous research group for coding theory and cryptology. This track record is due to an excellent selection of students, to the efforts by the faculty in terms of supervision and choice of timely, challenging, and relevant problems and to the active international collaborations.
On-going Ph.D. Topics (9)
2021
Samuele Andreoli - Threshold Implementations of Cryptographic Boolean Functions
Dian Li - Signal Design for Wireless Communications
2020-
Stein Dahl - Cryptanalysis on Symmetric Primitives
Amund Askeland - Side-channel Cryptanalysis
2019-
Ermes Franch - Code-based Cryptography
2018-
Wrya Kadir - Rank-Metric Codes and Their Applications
2017-
Alessandro Budroni - Cryptanalysis on Learning With Error
Diana Davidova - Construction and Properties of Cryptographic Boolean Functions
2017-
Isaac Canales Martinez - Algebraic Analysis of Stream ciphers
Completed Ph.D. Dissertations (41)
2021
Sachin Jayesh Valera - Topological quantum and skein-theoretic aspects of braided fusion categories
Dan Zhang - Design of sequences with good correlation properties
Nikolay Kaleyski - Towards a deeper understanding of APN functions and related longstanding problems
2020
Ph.D. Irene Villa, Analysis, classification and construction of optimal cryptographic Boolean functions
Ph.D. Navid Ghaedi Bardeh, New Approaches to the Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers
2019
Ph.D. Andrea Tenti, Sufficiently overdetermined random polynomial systems behave like semiregular ones
2018
Ph.D. Bo Sun, On classification and other properties of APN functions
2015
Ph.D. Mohsen Toorani, Security protocols and related topics
2014
Ph.D. Oleksandr Kazymyrov, Methods and Tools for Analysis of Symmetric Cryptographic Primitives
Ph.D. Chunlei Li, Sequences and Linear Codes from Highly Nonlinear Functions
2012
Ph.D. Somaye Yari, Coding for correcting errors of limited magnitude and for error detection
Ph.D. Mohammad Reza Sohizadeh Abyaneh, Security Analysis of Lightweight Schemes for RFID Systems
Ph.D. Ramij Rahaman, Study of nonlocal correlations and entanglement in the context of quantum information processing
Ph.D. Thorsten Ernst Schilling, Towards efficient algorithms in algebraic cryptanalysis
Ph.D. Guang Yang, Coding for Passive RFID Communication
2011
Ph.D. Seyed Mehdi Mohammed Hassanzadeh, Cryptanalysis of Cryptographic Primitives and Related Topics
2010
Ph.D. Tor Erling Bjørstad, On the security of cryptographic primitives
Ph.D. Joakim Grahl Knudsen, On Iterative Decoding of High-Density Parity-Check Codes Using Edge-Local Complementation
Ph.D. Michal Hojsik, Various aspects of stream cipher cryptanalysis
2009
Ph.D. Aina Johansen, The correlation of sequences over finite alphabets
Ph.D. Mohammad Ravanbaksh, Towards Optimal Data Transmission by Network Coding
Ph.D. Sondre Rønjom, Cryptanalysis of Ciphers over Finite Cyclic Groups
2008
Ph.D. Lars-Helge Netland, Assessing and Mitigating Risks in Computer Systems
Ph.D. André N. Klingsheim, Risks in Networked Computer Systems
Ph.D. Lars Eirik Danielsen, On Connections Between Graphs, Codes, Quantum States, and Boolean Functions
Ph.D. Yngve Espelid, Practices in Software Security
2007
Ph.D. Geir Jarle Ness, Correlation of sequences of different lengths and related topics
Ph.D. Thomas Tjøstheim, Security Analysis of Electronic Voting and Online Banking Systems
Ph.D. Irina Naydenova, Error detection and correction for symmetric and asymmetric channels
2006
Ph.D. Vebjørn Moen, Vulnerabilities in Distributed Systems
2005
Ph.D. Pål Ellingsen, Iterative decoding for the Z-channel and related topics
Ph.D. John Erik Mathiassen, Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers and Hash Functions
Ph.D. Håvard Molland, New Methods for Cryptanalysis of Stream Ciphers
Ph.D. Håvard Raddum, Cryptanalytic Methods for Block Cipher Encryption Schemes
2003
Ph.D. Eirik Rosnes, Structural Properties of High Rate Convolutional and Turbo Codes and Related Topics
2002
Ph.D. Hans Georg Schaathun, Support Weights in Linear Codes and Projective Multisets
2000
Ph.D. Halvard Movik Martinsen, Sequence Design and Correlation
1998
Ph.D. Chunming Rong, Computational Analysis in Algebraic Decoding, APN-Mappings and t-Designs
Ph.D. Rolf Erstad, Coding and Decoding of High Density Magnetic Recording Systems
1995
Ph.D. Marianne Fjelltveit Hole, High rate convolutional codes: low complexity decoding and structural analysis
1994
Ph.D. Erik Rønneberg Hauge, DeBruijn sequences and non-linear recursion
1992
Ph.D. Sylvia Borissova Encheva, Optimal binary linear codes
1991
Ph.D. Kjell Jørgen Hole, Punctured convolutional codes and their applications
1989
Ph.D. Øyvind Ytrehus, Codes for error control