Carles Padró

Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics,

Department of Applied Mathematics IV
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

 


Postal Address:
Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada IV
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
C. Jordi Girona, 1-3
08034 Barcelona
Catalonia, Spain

Please notice my new e-mail address and URL!

e-mail: cpadro at ma4 upc edu
URL: http://www-ma4.upc.edu/~cpadro
Telephone: +34 93 401 6041
Fax: +34 93 401 5981

Short CV

Born in Manresa, Catalonia, in 1964. Graduate in Mathematics, Universitat de Barcelona, 1988. PhD Student and Lecturer in the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya from 1988 to 1994. Doctor in Mathematics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 1994. Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics IV of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya from 1997.

Research

Currently, my research is mainly devoted to Cryptology. I belong to the Research Group on Mathematics Applied to Cryptography. I am interested mainly in problems in Algebra and Combinatorics related to Unconditional Security in Cryptography, Distributed Cryptography and Public Key Cryptography.

I was a member of the Research Group on Graph Theory and Combinatorics of our department from 1988 to 2001. I began my research activities in this group as a PhD student. My main interest in this area was the application of Graph Theory to the design of Interconnection Networks.

Manuscripts and Preprints

  1. R. Cramer, Y. Dodis, S. Fehr, C. Padró, D. Wichs. Detection of Algebraic Manipulation with Applications to Robust Secret Sharing and Fuzzy Extractors. To appear in Eurocrypt 2008.
  2. A. Beimel, N. Livne, C. Padró. Matroids Can Be Far From Ideal Secret Sharing. To appear in TCC 2008.
  3. R. Cramer, E. Kiltz, C. Padró. A Note on Secure Computation of the Moore-Penrose Pseudoinverse and Its Application to Secure Linear Algebra. Full version of the paper that appeared in Crypto 2007 (in preparation).
  4. O. Farràs, J. Martí-Farré, C. Padró. Ideal Multipartite Secret Sharing Schemes. Full version of the paper that appeared in Eurocrypt 2007.
  5. J. Martí-Farré, C. Padró. On Secret Sharing Schemes, Matroids and Polymatroids. Full version of the paper that appeared in TCC 2007. Updated on October 23, 2007.
  6. J. Martí-Farré, C. Padró. Ideal secret sharing schemes whose minimal qualified subsets have at most three participants. Full version of the paper that appeared in SCN 2006 (in preparation).
  7. R. Cramer, V. Daza, I. Gracia, J. Jiménez Urroz, G. Leander, J. Martí-Farré, C. Padró. On codes, matroids and secure multi-party computation from linear secret sharing schemes. Full version of the paper that appeared in Crypto 2005. Updated on January 23, 2007.

Publications

List of my main publications

Recent Seminars and Invited Talks

Complete list of seminars and invited talks

Other Current Research Activities

General Chair of the IACR International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography, PKC 2008. Barcelona, Spain, 2008.

Member of the Program Committee of the Conferences:

Complete list of other research activities

PhD Thesis

PhD Students

I have been the advisor of the PhD Thesis:

  1. Germán Sáez. Esquemes per a compartir secrets (in Catalan, Secret Sharing Schemes). UPC (1998).
  2. Daniela Ferrero. Graphs and hypergraphs as interconnection network models. UPC (1999).
  3. Vanesa Daza. On Linear Secret Sharing Schemes and Distributed Cryptographic Protocols. UPC (2004).

Teaching

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In the academic year 2007-2008, I teach Differential Equations in the Telecommunication Engineering School; and Differential Geometry 2,  and Real Analysis, and Distributed Cryptography in the Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics.

I have taught other subjects:

In the Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics (FME): Graph Theory, Differential Geometry 1, and Topics on Mathematics for Engineering (Introduction to Fourier Analysis).
In the Telecommunication Engineering School (ETSETB): Calculus, Linear Algebra, Vector Analysis, and Mathematics for Telecommunication.
in the Castelldefels School of Technology (EPSC): Mathematical Aspects of Telecommunication (Basics on Cryptology).

Teaching publications

These pages were created by Carles Padró on March 6, 2000.

Last Update: February 22, 2008