Special Topics in Cryptography

Abstract

This class will be on Monday mornings and we will cover advanced topics including Secure Multi-Party Computation, Fully Homomorphic Encryption, etc. It will also bring in speakers, including students and postdocs, to give lectures on their current research topics and results, and it encourages students to give presentations in any interesting topics they choose.

Lecturer Intro.

Dr. Bei Liang received Ph.D. in information security from the Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She was a postdoc researcher at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. Currently, she is an assistant researcher at the BIMSA. Her main research interest is theoretical cryptography. She has published more than 20 papers in international journals or conferences, and won the ISC2019 Best Paper Award and the ProvSec2015 Best Student Paper Award. She participated in two National Key Research and Development Programs and undertook one Beijing Natural Science Foundation.