Cryptographic Protocols Laboratory

Breakthrough · 1,000-Qubit Coherence AchievedCareers · 12 Postdoc Positions OpenAward · Best Paper IEEE S&P 2025Partnership · CERN CollaborationEvent · AI Safety Summit June 2025Grant · $18M NSF Award Green ComputingPublication · Nature Photonics All-Optical NNBreakthrough · 1,000-Qubit Coherence AchievedCareers · 12 Postdoc Positions OpenAward · Best Paper IEEE S&P 2025Partnership · CERN CollaborationEvent · AI Safety Summit June 2025Grant · $18M NSF Award Green ComputingPublication · Nature Photonics All-Optical NN

Mission & Focus

About the Laboratory

Lattice-based and post-quantum cryptographic constructions, zero-knowledge proofs, secure multi-party computation, and verifiable credentials.

Active Projects

Current Research

CRYSTALS-Kyber Optimization

Active · 2025

ZK-SNARK Systems

Active · 2025

Homomorphic Encryption

Active · 2025

Threshold Signatures

Active · 2025

Research Team

Lab Members

Dr. Teresa Moreira

Lab Director

Dr. Senior Researcher

Research Scientist

Dr. Postdoc Fellow

Postdoctoral Researcher

PhD Candidate Alpha

PhD Student

PhD Candidate Beta

PhD Student

Research Assistant

MSc Student

Recent Publications

Selected Papers

CRYSTALS-Kyber Optimization: A Comprehensive Study

Lead Author et al. · Top Venue 2025 ★ Best Paper

ZK-SNARK Systems: Theory & Empirical Evaluation

Research Team · Flagship Journal 2025

Foundations of CPL: Survey and New Directions

Lab Members · Survey Paper 2024

Homomorphic Encryption: Experimental Results

Collaborative Work · Conference 2024

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🔑 Cryptographic Protocols Laboratory

About the Laboratory

Current Research

Lab Members

Selected Papers