Lilya Budaghyan

Lilya Budaghyan (born January 29, 1976) is a Norwegian-Armenian cryptographer, computer scientist, and discrete mathematician known for her work on cryptographic Boolean functions. She is a professor at the Department of Informatics of the University of Bergen in Norway,^[1] where she directs the Selmer Center in Secure Communication^[2] and leads Boolean functions team.^[3]

Lilya Budaghyan
Born	(1976-01-29) 29 January 1976 (age 49)
Citizenship	Armenia Norway
Occupations	Professor at the University of Bergen Mathematician Computer Scientist

Education and career

Budaghyan earned a diploma with honour in mathematics from Yerevan State University in 1998. After additional graduate research at Yerevan State University, she completed a PhD at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg in Germany in 2005.^[4] Her PhD dissertation is The equivalence of almost bent and almost perfect nonlinear functions and their generalizations.^[5]

After postdoctoral research at the University of Trento, Italy, the University of Bergen, and the University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, she became a professor at the University of Bergen in 2019.^[4]

Works

Budaghyan is the author of the book Construction and Analysis of Cryptographic Functions (Springer, 2014).^[6]

Recognition

Budaghyan won the Emil Artin Junior Prize in Mathematics for outstanding contributions in algebra, geometry and number theory in 2011 for a joint paper with Tor Helleseth titled “New commutative semifields defined by new PN multinomials”.^[7][8] In 2022 another paper co-authored by Budaghyan led to Emil Artin Junior Prize "Relation between o-equivalence and EA-equivalence for Niho bent functions".^{[citation needed]}

She is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences,^[9] elected in 2019.^[10]