Carlos established the Applied Cryptography Unit at OIST in April 2022. As adjunct professor, he spends around two months per year in Okinawa – otherwise he leads the unit's activities remotely from Norway. Carlos is an experienced cryptographer and cyber security researcher and educator. His interests range from algebraic cryptanalysis to quantum cryptography, from secure computation to cyber economics. See here for more details. Originally from Brazil, Carlos has also lived in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Norway. He is an avid traveller, and has been visiting Japan regularly – for business and pleasure – since 2009. 

Jyotirmoy received his Master’s and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. His primary research interests lie in various aspects of Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Communication. He is also interested in exploring different facets of Classical and Quantum Complexity Theory, Quantum Networks, Classical Cryptography, and other topics in Theoretical Computer Science. Beyond academia, he enjoys playing Cricket, Badminton, and a variety of other outdoor and indoor sports.

I completed my PhD at LIP6 and Sorbonne Université in Paris under the supervision of Alex Bredariol Grilo and Damien Vergnaud. My subjects of interest are cryptography, quantum information and complexity theory. More precisely, some topics that I am working on includes the Quantum Random Oracle Model, minimal assumptions for quantum cryptography (PRSs and variants), black-box reductions and separations in the quantum setting. Outside of the lab, I enjoy sports (mostly climbing recently), eating and playing video games.

My task is to provide research administration, ensuring unit members don’t get lost in paperwork and let them spend more time on their research instead.
I am not trained as a researcher, but it is very exciting to observe their research up close.