March 6, 2003

CSE assistant professor Daniele Micciancio has received the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The awards are intended to encourage scientists in the early stages of their careers who are deemed likely to contribute to the advancement of knowledge.

Professor Micciancio is an expert in algorithms for cryptography. In particular, he is a leader in the development of lattice-based primitives, a scheme in which messages can be encoded as points on a lattice, or multi-dimensional grid. Researchers can enhance the "complexity" (computational difficulty) of cracking the scheme simply by adding extra dimensions. Micciancio is working on many other topics in the area of cryptography and computer security, including forward-security (an enhanced notion of security that takes into account theft of digital keys used to sign a message), zero-knowledge protocols (a general tool for securing various kinds of interactive applications), and formal methods for computer security-the development of tools and techniques to make the design and validation of cryptographic protocols a more manageable task.

Micciancio came to UCSD in 1999. He is a 2001 recipient of an NSF Career Award, and 2001 Hellman Fellow, and author of the book "Complexity of Lattice Problems: a cryptographic perspective" (Kluwer, 2002).

Links
Daniele Micciancio Research Profile
Daniele Micciancio Home Page

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