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Kaiqi Xiong Receives 2nd NSF Collaborative Research Grant
Kaiqi Xiong is co-principal investigator on an NSF Collaborative Research grant for $600,000 over three years for Collaborative Quantum Computing and Cybersecurity Training Through Cyberinfrastructures.
October 7, 2025Research
Lukas Koelsch Receives a Simons Grant
Professor Lukas Koelsch was awarded a Simons Travel Support for Mathematicians Grant for $42,000 over a five-year period for a project titled "Constructions and investigations of semifields and highly nonlinear functions, and their applications in cryptography and coding theory".
September 29, 2025Research
Nata拧a Jonoska Receives an NSF FET Grant
Nata拧a Jonoska received a $316,700 grant from the National Science Foundation鈥檚 Foundations of Emerging Technologies program for developing computational tools for designing complex nanoscale structures to be assembled out of parts made of DNA.
September 29, 2025Research
Kaiqi Xiong Receives NSF Collaborative Research Grant
Kaiqi Xiong is principal investigator on an NSF Collaborative Research grant for $150,000 over two years for Collaborative Quantum Computing and Cybersecurity Training Through Cyberinfrastructures.
September 2, 2025Research
Research Experience for Undergraduates 2025
From May 27th to August 1st 2025, the Center for Cryptographic Research organized the 3rd edition of the Research Experience Undergraduate (REU Site) program in cryptography, coding theory and quantum computing.
August 1, 2025Research
Applied Number Theory Days Workshop 2025
The Applied Number Theory Workshop and Colloquium was held March 31st through April 4th, 2025 at USF. The highlight of the workshop was a series of three lectures by Professor Andrea Ferraguti from Universit脿 di Torino on Arboreal Galois Representations.
April 4, 2025Research
Giacomo Micheli Receives an NSF CAREER Award
Giacomo Micheli received an NSF CAREER award of $500,000 over five years to work on rank metric codes from Drinfeld Modules and new primitives in code-based cryptography.
July 22, 2024Research
Jean-Fran莽ois Biasse named co-PI on Quantum City grant
In July 2024, Jean-Fran莽ois Biasse received (as a Co-PI) a CAD 280,000 2-year grant from Quantum City, an institute formed in partnership between the University of Calgary, the Government of Alberta, and the Mphasis company.
July 15, 2024Research
Jean-Fran莽ois Biasse and colleagues receive an IDRA grant
In May 2024, Jean-Fran莽ois Biasse (PI, pictured left), Rouzbeh Behnia (Muma, Co-PI), Kwang-Cheng Chen (Engineering, Co-PI), Lukas K枚lsch (Co-PI, center), Giacomo Micheli (Co-PI, right), Mehran Mozzafari-Kermani (Bellini, Co-PI), and Attila Yavuz (Bellini, Co-PI) received a $316k Interdisciplinary Research Award (IDRA) to support the development of the infrastructure of the USF Centre for Cryptographic Research.
May 20, 2024Research
Jean-Fran莽ois Biasse and colleagues receive an NSF RTG grant
In April 2024, Jean-Fran莽ois Biasse (PI), Xiang-Dong Hou (Co-PI), Giacomo Micheli (Co-PI), Dmytro Savchuk (Co-PI) and Razvan Teodorescu (Co-PI) received a $2.5M award from the NSF Research Training Groups (RTG) program.
April 29, 2024Research
Dr. Giacomo Micheli to give plenary talk at 13th International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography
Dr. Giacomo Micheli will be one of the five plenary speakers at WCC2024, the thirteenth edition of the biannual Coding and Cryptography workshop (WCC 2024) held at the University of Perugia in Perugia, Italy, June 17-21, 2024. The workshop brings together researchers in all aspects of coding theory, cryptography, and related areas, theoretical or applied.
March 18, 2024Research
Applied Number Theory Days workshop on Tampa campus February 26-March 1
The Applied Number Theory Days is an engaging workshop that brings together experts in applied algebra and number theory, facilitating the exchange of innovative ideas and fostering new collaborations on ongoing projects within the discipline.
February 20, 2024Research