Activities

Events/News:

Our work ADSNARK received the CNIL-INRIA 2016 award for privacy protection!
Our Homomorphic Authentication Library (HAL) has been publicly released on GitHub!

Former Students and Postdocs:

Hadrian Rodriguez (Research programmer, March 2020 – June 2021)
Antonio Faonio (Postdoc, January 2017 – June 2020)
Matteo Campanelli (Postdoc, February 2018 – July 2020)
Miguel Ambrona (Postdoc, January 2019 – May 2019)
Luca Nizzardo (PhD student, 2014 – May 2018, now Research Scientist @ Protocol Labs)
Elena Pagnin (PhD student, external co-supervisor, with A. Sabelfeld @ Chalmers University of Technology, 2015 – September 2018, now faculty at Lund University)
Anca Nitulescu (PhD student, external co-supervisor, with M. Abdalla and D. Pointcheval @ ENS Paris, October 2015 – April 2019)
Kasra EdalatNejad (Research intern from EPFL, July – November 2021)
Pierre Bourse (Research intern from ENS Rennes, June – July 2021)
Alexandre Bois (Intern, February – July 2020)
Elijah Grubb (Visiting PhD student, UMD, September – December 2019)
Mario Garcia (Research developer, October 2018 – April 2019)
Stefano Ottolenghi (Visiting master student, February – July 2019)
Jorge Blázquez (Master student and research intern, UCM, March – December 2018)
Mario Garcia (Master student, UC3M, February – September 2018)
Anais Querol Cruz (Research intern and Bachelor thesis, UPM, September 2016 – July 2017)
Chiara Redaelli (Master thesis, Universita’ di Milano Bicocca, October 2016–February 2017)
Martin Zuber (Research intern, EURECOM, July 2016 – January 2017)
Rosario Russo (Master thesis, UPM and Politecnico di Torino, March–July 2015)
Anca Nitulescu (Research intern, March–September 2015)
Luca Nizzardo (Research intern, March–May 2014)

Teaching:

Spring 2018: Foundations of Cryptography @ UPM
Fall 2016–2021: Computer Security @ UPM / IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid
Fall 2014: Introduction to Cryptography @ UPM, Madrid; Computer Security @ UPM / IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid

Projects/Funding:

CRYPTOEPIC: “Europa Excelencia” grants by the Spanish Ministry of Science, PI (2019-2021)
Research contract with BBVA (2020)
PoST: “Proofs of SpaceTime” grant by Protocol Labs (2018-2020)
DataMantium: “RETOS” project by Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (2016-2019)
CryptoAction: COST Action IC1306 “Cryptography for Secure Digital Interaction”, Vice-chair and MC member (2014-2018)
NEXTLEAP: H2020 project (2016-2018)
“Juan de la Cierva-Incorporacion” research grant (2016-2017)
HC@WORKS-16: EIT Digital Activity (2016).

Past Program Committees and Editorial Boards:

Eurocrypt 2021, Financial Crypto 2021
PKC 2020
PKC 2019, ACM CCS 2019.
ACM CCS 2018, UCC Cloud Challenge 2018, CRYPTO 2018, Financial Crypto 2018,
ASIACRYPT 2017, ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop (CCSW) 2017, IEEE EuroS&P 2017, PKC 2017, Financial Crypto 2017, WAHC 2017,
ACM CCS 2016, BalkanCryptSec 2016, Eurocrypt 2016, PKC 2016, AfricaCrypt 2016, IEEE Euro S&P 2016, SEC@ACM SAC 2016,
I Jornadas Nacionales de Investigacion en Ciberseguridad (JNIC 2015), ACM CCS 2015, CRYPTO 2015, PKC 2015, WAHC 2015, SCC 2015,
SCN 2014, Africacrypt 2014, WAHC 2013-2014 Workshop on Applied Homomorphic Cryptography,
Pairing 2012-2013, IWSEC 2012-2013, PKC 2011.
Past Editorial Boards: IET Information Security (2015-2020)

Talks:

A journey in vector commitments. Keynote @ IWSEC 2021, September 2021.
Cryptography for Privacy and Integrity of Computation on Untrusted Machines @ “Summer seminars on cybersecurity”, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering of Sapienza University of Rome, June 2021.
Boosting Verifiable Computation on Encrypted Data @ Kookmin University, South Korea, August 2020.
LegoSNARK: Modular Design and Composition of Succinct Zero-Knowledge Proofs @ ICIAM 2019, Valencia, Spain, July 2019.
Computing Securely on Untrusted Machines @ University of Verona, Italy, May 2019.
LegoSNARK: Modular Design and Composition of Succinct Zero-Knowledge Proofs @ 2nd ZKProof Workshop, Berkeley, California, US, April 2019.
Homomorphic Authentication for Computing Securely on Untrusted Machines @ Paris Crypto Day, Paris, France, March 2019.
Matrioska: A Compiler for Multi-Key Homomorphic Signatures @ SCN 2018, Amalfi, Italy. September 2018.
Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Applications to IoT and Blockchains @ B4Things, Madrid, Spain. April 2018.
Homomorphic Authentication for Computing Securely on Untrusted Machines, Keynote @ NordSec 2017, Tartu, Estonia, November 2017.
Labeled Homomorphic Encryption @ ESORICS 2017, Oslo, Norway, September 2017.
On the (In)Security of SNARKs in the Presence of Oracles @ IV Congreso de Jóvenes Investigadores de la Real Sociedad Matemática Española, Valencia, Spain. September 2017.
ADSNARK: Nearly Practical and Privacy-Preserving Proofs on Authenticated Data @ Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea. July 2017
Computing Quadratic Functions on Encrypted Data @ Mathcrypt 2017, Daejeon, South Korea. June 30 2017.
Unilaterally-Authenticated Key Exchange @ FC 2017, Malta. April 2017
On the (In)Security of SNARKs in the Presence of Oracles @ II CryptoAction Symposium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. March 2017.
Secure Outsourcing of Data and Computation to the Cloud @ EIT Digital Symposium: security of digital systems and protocols, Rennes, France. November 24, 2016.
Modern Cryptography for Privacy and Integrity in the Cloud @ GSE Management Summit, Lisbon, Portugal. September 27, 2016.
Labeled Homomorphic Encryption: Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Processing of Outsourced Data @ Cryptography Seminars Day @URJC, Madrid, Spain. September 9, 2016.
Labeled Homomorphic Encryption: Practical Delegation of Computation on Encrypted Data @ 3rd Microsoft Research – IMDEA Software Institute Collaborative Workshop, Cambridge, UK. May 2016.
ADSNARK: Nearly Practical and Privacy-Preserving Proofs on Authenticated Data @ CryptoAction Symposium, Budapest, Hungary. April 2016.