Lilya Budaghyan
Position
Professor, Discrete mathematics, cryptography, boolean ffunctions
Affiliation
Research groups
Research
Prof. Lilya Budaghyan is the leader of at the of the University of Bergen.
Her main research interests are in the field of Discrete Mathematics, Boolean functions, Cryptography, AI security and their applications.
She obtained her PhD degree from the University of Magdeburg (Germany, 2005) and habilitation degree from the University of Paris VIII (France, 2013).
She is the author of the book "Construction and Analysis of Cryptographic Functions", and has been awarded a few prestigious fellowships and awards among which are TMS starting grant award (2016), 鈥淵oung Research Talent Grant鈥 from Norwegian Research Council (2014), postdoctoral fellowship award from Foundation of Mathematical Sciences of Paris (2012) and Emil Artin Junior Prize in Mathematics (2011). Since 2019 she is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.
Since 2007 she has been with the University of Bergen (Norway), and as head of the Selmer Center during 2017-2024. Previously, she also conducted her research at the Yerevan State University (Armenia, 1998-2003), University of Magdeburg (Germany, 2003-2005), University of Trento (Italy, 2005-2007), Telecom ParisTech (2011), Universities of Paris VIII and Paris XIII (2012-2013).
Publications
Academic article
Conference lecture
Academic book chapter
Editorial/Leader article
Doctoral thesis (PhD)
Book anthology
Academic monograph
Projects
- Currently a part of Lead AI and several other research projects from NFR (with Vincent Rijmen and Markus Hittmeir as PIs).
- BoolTI: Cryptographic Boolean Functions for Threshold Implementations (10.5 MNOK), 2021-2025 (Principal Investigator: other key members: Claude Carlet, George Petrides and Vincent Rijmen)
- Project of Russia Program at Norwegian Center for International Cooperation in Education 鈥淒evelopment of a new joint educational program in Information Security and Cryptography at the 黑料吃瓜资源 and Novosibirsk State University鈥 with N.Tokareva for period 02.2019 - 02.2021 (0.3M NOK).
- Eurasia 2017 Project Development Funding Grant for 鈥淒evelopment of Education in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics in Armenia鈥 with Yu.Movsisyan and G.Khachatrian for period 10.2017 - 12.2017 (50K NOK).
- Trond Mohn Foundation Recruitment Program Grant for 鈥淥ptimal Boolean Functions鈥 project for period 05.2017 - 04.2021 (23.5M NOK).
- "Young research talent grant" from Norwegian Research Council for 鈥淒iscrete Functions and There Applications in Cryptography and Mathematics鈥 for period 09.2014 - 09.2018 (7 M NOK)