Awards, Prizes and Distinctions

2020

• Vincent Rijmen received the prestigious RSA Conference Excellence in the Field of Mathematics Award 2020 in San Francisco yesterday

2019

• Vincent Rijmen's paper became the finalist for the CSAW ’19 Europe Applied Research Competition (Lauren De Meyer, Victor Arribas, Svetla Nikova, Ventzislav Nikov, and Vincent Rijmen, M&M: Masks and Macs against Physical Attacks")
• Vincent Rijmen is named IACR Fellow for co-designing AES, contributions to the design and cryptanalysis of symmetric primitives, and service to the IACR2019
• Lilya Budaghyan is elected a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences (NTVA)
• Lilya Budaghyan becomes a member of the steering committee of WAIFI conference
• Diana Davidova, Nikolay Kaleyski, Irene Villa, Dan Zhang and Marco Calderini have got Meltzer travel grants.
• Lilya Budaghyan, Claude Carlet, and Tor Helleseth establish a new "George Boole" prize for outstanding contributions to Boolean functions theory and their applications

2018

• Tor Helleseth is a member of the committee for the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
• Tor Helleseth is a member of the committee for the IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award
• Tor Helleseth is a member of the committee for the Joint Communications Society/Information Theory Award
• Tor Helleseth is a member of the committee for the IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
• Lilya Budaghyan becomes a member of the editorial board of the International Journal "Cryptography and Communications"
• Lilya Budaghyan is elected a foreign member of Armenian Mathematical Union (AMU)

2017

• Tor Helleseth is a member of the committee for the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
• Tor Helleseth is a member of the committee for the IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award
• Tor Helleseth is a member of the committee for the Joint Communications Society/Information Theory Award
• Tor Helleseth is a member of the committee for the IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award

2015

• Tor Helleseth is a member of the committee for the IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award

2016

• Lilya Budaghyan is awarded a TMS starting grant
• Tor Helleseth is a member of the committee for the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal

2014

• Lilya Budaghyan gets "Young Research talent Grant"

2013

• Lilya Budaghyan gets habilitation (professorial) degree in Mathematics from the University of Paris VIII, France

2012

• Lilya Budaghyan becomes a laureate of 2012 Postdoctoral Fellowship Award of the Foundation Sciences Mathematique de Paris (a network of excellence in fundamental and applied mathematics and fundamental computer science)
• Tor Helleseth becomes an associate editor for Coding Theory for "IEEE Transactions on Information Theory" (up to 2014)

2011

• Lilya Budaghyan gets Emil Artin Juniour Prize in mathematics for outstanding contribution in algebra, geometry and number theory for her joint paper with Tor Helleseth

2009

• Tor Helleseth becomes a member of the editorial board of the International Journal "Cryptography and Communications"

2008

• Matthew Parker becomes an Associate Editor for Sequences for "IEEE Transactions on Information Theory" (up to 2012)

2007

• Tor Helleseth becomes a member of Board of Governors for the IEEE Information Theory Society (up to 2009)

2004

• Tor Helleseth becomes a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters DNVA

2002

• Torleiv Kløve becomes an IEEE Fellow

2001

• Torleiv Kløve becomes a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society (up to 2003)

1997

• Tor Helleseth becomes an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to coding theory and cryptography

1996

• Tor Helleseth becomes a member of the editorial board of the International Journal "Designs, Codes and Cryptography"
• Torleiv Kløve becomes an associate editor for Coding Theory for "IEEE Transactions on Information Theory" (up to 1999)

1991

• Tor Helleseth becomes an associate editor for Sequences for "IEEE Transactions on Information Theory" (up to 1994)