C&O graduate students Samuel Jaques and John Schanck have won the Best Young Researcher Paper Award at Crypto 2019, the 39th Annual International Cryptology Symposium. Their paper, Quantum cryptanalysis in the RAM model: Claw-finding attacks on SIKE, will be presented on August 20 in Santa Barbara.
Professor Chaitanya Swamy has been appointed to a ten-month term as acting chair of the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization. His term begins on September 1, 2019.
