Hilder Vitor Lima Pereira

Assistant professor at Institute of Computing - State University of Campinas (Unicamp) .

Before joining Unicamp, I spent 2.5 years as post-doctoral researcher at COSIC, KU Leuven.

PhD in Computer Science at University of Luxembourg. My advisor was professor Jean-Sébastien Coron.

MSc in Computer Science, at University of Campinas, working with cryptography under the supervision of professor Diego de Freitas Aranha.

BSc in Computer Science at University of São Paulo.

My main research interests are homomorphic encryption, post-quantum cryptography, and computing on encrypted data.

Open positions.

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Awards and Scholarships

  • 2021: Paper among top three papers of the conference PKC 2021 and invited to the Journal of Cryptology.

  • 2016: Google Research Awards for Latin America (and a scholarship to my PhD degree studies)

  • 2015: Google Research Awards for Latin America (and a scholarship to my master's studies)

  • 2012: Scholarship to study for a semester at Université de Franche-Comté, France, provided by the Rectory of University of São Paulo through the Program of Academic Merit Scholarships to International Exchange.

  • 2010: Honorable mention given by the government of the State of São Paulo for works presented in the Third Technology Fair of Technical Schools of São Paulo.

Research interests

  • Homomorphic Encryption
  • Privacy-preserving Computation
  • Cryptographic Multilinear Maps
  • Indistinguishability Obfuscation
  • Provable Security

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