Cryptography and Information Security

Cryptography and Information Security focus on designing the foundations and systems that enable secure, private, and trustworthy communication and computation. The field combines theoretical rigor with practical resilience to build tools that defend against adversarial threats—from mathematical attacks to real-world vulnerabilities. Bridging theory, systems, and hardware, this field provides the cryptographic and security foundations that underpin modern digital infrastructure—from secure messaging and e-voting to cloud computing and embedded systems.

Key research areas include:

• Security Protocols – Developing cryptographic frameworks for authentication, secure multiparty computation, verifiable voting, and zero-knowledge proofs.
• Cryptographic Primitives – Constructing the core algorithms for encryption, digital signatures, and secure key exchange using both classical and post-quantum techniques.
• Implementation Security – Analyzing and mitigating hardware and software vulnerabilities, including side-channel attacks and fault injection.
• Privacy-Preserving Technologies – Designing methods to safeguard sensitive data in storage, computation, and communication, across centralized and decentralized systems.
• Software and Network Security – Defending against malware, spam, and distributed attacks in both wired and wireless environments, including IoT and cyber-physical systems.

Meet the Professors 

(by alphabetical order)