People

We are a team of ten researchers and growing, passionate and involved in the international cryptographic community, and part of the Department of Information Security, a world-renowned research group established in the 1980s.

Faculty

Simon Blackburn (Professor)

Simon studies algebra, combinatorics, cryptography, and the connections between these subjects. He is interested in the cryptanalysis of post-quantum schemes.

Danilo Francati (Lecturer)

Danilo's research interests are theoretical and applied cryptography with a focus on advanced public-key primitives and their applications. He is also interested in blockchain and privacy-preserving machine learning.

Saqib Kakvi (Lecturer)

Saqib's research focus on bridging the gaps between the theory and practice of cryptography. He has had results about digital signature schemes, with recent results of standardised signature schemes. Recently, he has also been interested in advanced encryption primitives such as time-lock encryption and witness encryption.

Keith Martin (Professor)

Keith has broad research interests, with a focus on applications of cryptography, and geopolitical aspects of cryptography and cyber security. He is also keen on communicating about cryptography to wider audiences.

Chris Mitchell (Professor)

Chris co-founded the Information Security Group in 1990, and helped launch the MSc in Information Security in 1992. His research interests span information security, focusing on applications of cryptography, and combinatorial mathematics.

Sean Murphy (Professor)

Sean's academic research concentrates on mathematical cryptology. He was a leader of the NESSIE project, a European project to assess cryptographic primitives for future possible standardisation. He was also a member of the committee which set up ECRYPT project, a European Network of Excellence in Cryptology consiting of 35 European organisations working in cryptology.

Siaw-Lynn Ng (Senior Lecturer)

Siaw-Lynn's research interest lies in combinatorics and finite geometry and their applications in information security. Recent work includes research into the properties of privacy and resilience in distributed storage codes, anonymity in peer-to-peer reputation systems, and security in swarm robotics.

Rachel Player (Senior Lecturer)

Rachel's main research interests are in post-quantum cryptography, especially in the design and cryptanalysis of lattice-based cryptographic schemes. Rachel is interested in Privacy Enhancing Technologies and she has worked extensively in the area of applied homomorphic encryption. Recently, Rachel has been interested in the application of quantum algorithms in cryptanalysis.

Elizabeth Quaglia (Reader)

Liz's research focuses on public-key cryptography, including identity-based and attribute-based encryption, digital signatures and key exchange protocols. In the last years, she has specialised in privacy notions for advanced protocols such as e-voting and the security of blockchain technologies.

Yiannis Tselekounis (Lecturer)

Yiannis' research focuses on the design and the security analysis of cryptographic primitives and protocols, including end-to-end encrypted messaging, private information retrieval, blockchain technologies, non-malleable cryptography and cryptographic hardware.

Christian Weinert (Lecturer)

Christian's research focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of privacy-preserving protocols at large scale. During his bachelor and master studies, he worked in the area of secure long-term archiving.