Joseph Jean Boutros
TAMU Qatar
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Thursday, October 10, 2024
&
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
11:10 a.m. – 12:25 p.m.
@ the WEB 333’s Fishbowl
Title: “Algebra of Codes, Goppa Codes, and Applications to Post-Quantum Cryptography”
Abstract
We introduce linear codes over finite fields. Then, we study Generalized Reed-Solomon (RS) codes. Goppa codes are defined as subfield subcodes of RS codes. Finally, we describe the McEliece cryptosystem based on Goppa codes for asymmetric post-quantum cryptography.
Biography
Joseph Jean Boutros received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1992 and the Ph.D. degree in 1996, both from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST, Telecom ParisTech), Paris, France. From 1996 to 2006, he was with the Communications and Electronics Department at ENST as an Associate Professor. Also, Dr Boutros was a member of the research unit UMR-5141 of the French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS) in Paris. In July 2007, Doctor Boutros joined Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) as a full Professor in the electrical engineering program.
Prof. Boutros’ fields of research are codes on graphs, lattice sphere packings, iterative decoding, joint source-channel coding, compressive sensing, space-time coding, physical-layer security, and physical-layer network coding.