Tjerand Silde
Hi! I am an Associate Professor in Cryptology at the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
in Trondheim, where I am the Research Group Leader of the NTNU Applied Cryptology Lab.
I am also a Security and Cryptography Expert at the cybersecurity company Pone Biometrics.
My main foci of research are lattice-based cryptography and zero-knowledge protocols. My interests generally span the areas of post-quantum crypto, anonymous communication, multiparty computation, homomorphic encryption, electronic voting and secure implementation.
I am a member of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR).
News:
- I will be on sabbatical leave from January 15th to July 15th during spring 2025.
- Two-Round Threshold Lattice-Based Signatures from Threshold Homomorphic Encryption is published at PQCrypto 2024! Joint work with Kamil Doruk Gur and Jonathan Katz.
- I will be the general co-chair for IACR PKC 2025 in Røros together with Bor de Kock!
- I started as an Associate Professor in Cryptology at the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology at NTNU on September 1st, 2022.
I support the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Tor Project and the Signal Foundation.