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Aikata wins ÖAW Critical Infrastructure Award

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Aikata for winning the Critical Infrastructure Award by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) for her PhD research on Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) and Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE)!

The CI Award recognises young scientists for outstanding achievements related to safety-critical infrastructures in the context of their PhD studies. It is intended, in particular, for the completion of their dissertation.
Read more about this year’s award here.

Aikata’s research focuses on efficient cryptographic accelerators for quantum-secure communication and privacy-preserving computation, including developing unified PQc cryptoprocessors and high-performance FHE hardware.

📸: Daniel Hinterramskogler