Dr. Veronika Kuchta
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Science Building (SE43), Room 200
Tel: +1 561-297-3671
Education
PhD in Applied Cryptography, University of Surrey, United Kingdom, 2016
Diploma (equiv. MSc) in mathematics, Heidelberg University, Germany, 2010 
Research Interests
Cryptography, post-quantum cryptography, number theory, public-key and symmetric cryptography
Research Description
Veronika graduated with a Diploma degree in Mathematics from Heidelberg University in Germany in 2010. Afterwards, she received her PhD in applied cryptography from University of Surrey, United Kingdom in 2016. She worked as a postdoc at the Universite libre de Bruxelles in Belgium from 2016-2018. From 2018 till 2020 she joined Monash University in Melbourne, Australia as research fellow. From December 2020 to July 2022 she was employed by The University of Queensland, School of Mathematics and Physics as a lecturer in mathematical cryptography. In November 2022 she joined at Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, USA) as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences. Her research interests focus is on the different areas of mathematical cryptography, post-quantum cryptography and its applications to the real-world.
Publications
1) Ron Steinfeld, Amin Sakzad, Muhammed F. Esgin, Veronika Kuchta, Mert Yassi, Raymond K. Zhao, LUNA: Quasi-Optimally Succinct Designated-Verifier Zero-Knowledge Arguments from Lattices. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2024 (to appear)
2) Yuexi Xu, Zhenyuan Li, Naipeng Dong, Veronika Kuchta, Zhe Hou and Dongxi Liu Formal Verification Techniques for Post-Quantum Cryptography: A Systematic Review. In 28th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2024) – Proceedings. (to appear).
3) Maxime Buser, Rafael Dowsley, Muhammed F. Esgin, Clémentine Gritti, Shabnam Kasra Kermanshahi, Veronika Kuchta, Jason T. LeGrow, Joseph K. Liu, Raphaël C.-W. Phan, Amin Sakzad, Ron Steinfeld, Jiangshan Yu:
A Survey on Exotic Signatures for Post- Quantum Blockchain: Challenges & Research Directions. In ACM Computing Surveys 2023 (Journal)
4) Muhammed F. Esgin, Oguzhan Ersoy, Veronika Kuchta, Julian Loss, Amin Sakzad, Ron Steinfeld, Xiangwen Yang, Raymond K. Zhao: A New Look at Blockchain Leader Election: Simple, Efficient, Sustainable and Post-Quantum. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, ASIA CCS 2023
5) Yevhen Zolotavkin; Jongkil Jay Jeong; Veronika Kuchta; Maksym Slavnenko; Robin Doss: Improving Unlinkability of Attribute-based Authentication through Game Theory. In ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (ACM TOPS Journal), vol 25, number 2, pp.12:1-12:36. 2022
Full list of all publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7724-2601
