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Hi! I am a third and final year PhD student in cryptography at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. My supervisor is Professor Kristian Gjøsteen, and I am a member of the NTNU Applied Cryptology Lab. I am also working part time as a Security and Cryptography Engineer at Pone Biometrics.
My main foci of research are lattice-based cryptography and zero-knowledge protocols. My interests also span the areas of secure multiparty computation, homomorphic encryption, password-authenticated key exchange, electronic voting and anonymous communication.
I graduated from NTNU with a B.Sc. in Mathematics in 2017 and a M.Sc. in Mathematics in 2020, respectively. During my master’s, I spent the academic year 2017-2018 at UC Berkeley, USA. During my PhD, I spent the fall of 2020 visiting Assistant Professor Carsten Baum and Associate Professor Diego Aranha at the Aarhus Crypto Group, Denmark, and I spent the winter 2021/2022 visiting Professor Jonathan Katz at the Maryland Cybersecurity Center, USA.
I have previously been working as a project manager at Lær Kidsa Koding (2015-17), as a university college teacher at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (2017-20), and I had a 3 months internship in 2018 at the IoT-security company Intrinsic-ID in Eindhoven, NL.
I am a member of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR).
News:
- Short Paper: Return Codes from Lattice Assumptions, is accepted at the E-Vote-ID Conference 2022. Joint work with Audhild Høgåsen.
- I am on the program committee of the 10th Workshop on Encrypted Computing and Applied Homomorphic Cryptography (WAHC 2022). Please submit your best work!
- Paper: Verifiable Decryption in the Head, is accepted at ACISP 2022. Joint work with Kristian Gjøsteen, Thomas Haines, Johannes Müller and Peter Rønne.
- Short Paper: Verifiable Decryption for BGV, is accepted at VOTING 2022.
- Paper: Anonymous Tokens with Public Metadata and Applications to Private Contact Tracing, is accepted at Financial Crypto 2022. Joint work with Martin Strand.
- Our project “OffPAD – Optimizing balance between high security and usability” got funded 16M NOK by the Norwegian Research Council for research on lightweight and PQ crypto.
I support the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Tor Project and the Signal Foundation.