Lilya Budaghyan (born January 29, 1976) is a Norwegian-Armenian cryptographer, computer scientist, and discrete mathematician known for her work on cryptographic Boolean functions. She is a professor at the Department of Informatics of the University of Bergen in Norway,[1] where she directs the Selmer Center in Secure Communication[2] and leads Boolean functions team.[3]

Lilya Budaghyan
Born (1976-01-29) 29 January 1976 (age 48)
Citizenship
  • Armenia
  • Norway
Occupations

Education and career

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Budaghyan earned a diploma with honour in mathematics from Yerevan State University in 1998. After additional graduate research at Yerevan State University, she completed a PhD at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg in Germany in 2005.[4] Her PhD dissertation is The equivalence of almost bent and almost perfect nonlinear functions and their generalizations.[5]

After postdoctoral research at the University of Trento, Italy, the University of Bergen, and the University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, she became a professor at the University of Bergen in 2019.[4]

Works

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Budaghyan is the author of the book Construction and Analysis of Cryptographic Functions (Springer, 2014).[6]

Recognition

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Budaghyan won the Emil Artin Junior Prize in Mathematics for outstanding contributions in algebra, geometry and number theory in 2011 for a joint paper with Tor Helleseth titled “New commutative semifields defined by new PN multinomials”.[7][8] In 2022 another paper co-authored by Budaghyan led to Emil Artin Junior Prize "Relation between o-equivalence and EA-equivalence for Niho bent functions".[citation needed]

She is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences,[9] elected in 2019.[10]

References

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  1. ^ "Lilya Budaghyan", Persons, University of Bergen, retrieved 2020-04-03
  2. ^ "Selmer Center in Secure Communication". University of Bergen.
  3. ^ "Boolean Functions Team at UiB". University of Bergen.
  4. ^ a b Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2020-04-03
  5. ^ Lilya Budaghyan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ Reviews of Construction and Analysis of Cryptographic Functions:
  7. ^ Pambuccian, Victor (February 2012), "Budaghyan Awarded Artin Junior Prize" (PDF), Mathematics People, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 59 (2): 322
  8. ^ "New commutative semifields defined by new PN multinomials", Cryptography and Communications, retrieved 2022-03-08
  9. ^ "Lilya Budaghyan", Medlemmer, Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, retrieved 2020-04-03
  10. ^ Li, Chunlei (13 March 2019), "Congratulations to Lilya Budaghyan - A Member of Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences", Selmer Center in Secure Communication News
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