Best Poster Award -- ACNS 2024

The poster “A Versatile and Unified HQC Hardware Accelerator” presented at the 22nd International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2024), won the Best Poster Award. The poster was written by Francesco Antognazza, Alessandro Barenghi, Gerardo Pelosi from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with Ruggero Susella from ST Microelectronics.

Francesco Antognazza
Francesco Antognazza
Ph.D. Student

My research interests include Digital Systems Design, HW/SW co-design, and Cryptography

Alessandro Barenghi
Alessandro Barenghi
Associate Professor

Alessandro Barenghi holds an M.Sc. (2007) and Ph.D. (2011) from Politecnico di Milano. His research focuses on computer, embedded, and network security, particularly applied cryptography. He also works on formal languages and compilers, specifically techniques for parallel parsing using operator precedence grammars.

Gerardo Pelosi
Gerardo Pelosi
Associate Professor

Gerardo Pelosi received the Laurea degree in Telecommunications Engineering in 2003 and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering and Information Technology in 2007 from Politecnico di Milano. His research fields cover (1) the area of information security and privacy including access control models, models for encrypted data management in relational databases, and secure data outsourcing; (2) the area of applied cryptography including side-channel cryptanalysis, system-level attacks, and efficient hardware and software design of cryptographic algorithms; other research interests are in designing security support into computer architectures and the logic synthesis of combinatorial circuits.