Vadim Lyubashevsky

Lattice Cryptography Tutorial

NIST Lattice Standards

About

Kyiv → New York → San Diego → Tel Aviv → Paris → Zurich

I am a cryptographer in the Security group at IBM Research Europe in Zurich, where I have worked since 2015. From 2010–2015, I was an Inria researcher (chargé de recherche) in the crypto group at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and prior to that, a post‑doc in the Foundations of Computing group at Tel‑Aviv University (hosted by Oded Regev) from 2008–2010. I received my Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego (advised by Daniele Micciancio) in 2008.

My main research focus is on designing efficient quantum-safe cryptographic protocols based on the hardness of lattice problems. In particular, I have worked on the foundations of practical lattice encryption, digital signatures, and am currently interested in zero‑knowledge proofs and real-world privacy‑preserving primitives. A lot of my recent research has been funded by the ERC starting and consolidator grants, and some past research has received the Test-of-Time award at Asiacrypt 2024 and Eurocrypt 2025. I also co-led the CRYSTALS team which produced the CRYSTALS-Kyber (ML-KEM) and the CRYSTALS-Dilithium (ML-DSA) NIST standards for post-quantum encryption and digital signatures.

Publications

People

Grants

• H2020 grant SAFECrypto (Secure Architectures of Future Emerging Cryptography), 2015 - 2018
• ERC Starting Grant FELICITY (Foundations of Efficient Lattice Cryptography), 2015 - 2020
• ERC Consolidator Grant PLAZA (Post‑Quantum Lattice‑Based Zero‑Knowledge), 2021 - 2026