Swechchha Adhikari

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I am a senior at BYU studying Mathematics and Computer Science.

I’m interested in both theoretical and applied post-quantum cryptography. Currently I am formalizing and evaluating cryptographic protocols for Utah’s new State-Endorsed Digital Identity (SEDI) framework, under the supervision of Kent Seamons.

Previously, I was a research intern at Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) in cryptographic engineering, supervised by Peter Schwabe. I worked on evaluating ML-KEM at (much) higher security levels.

My mathematical interests lie in algebraic number theory and computational algebra, with applications to cryptography. My most recent project involved constructing monogenic fields of cryptographic size, motivated in part by RLWE (preprint). An earlier work on algebraic geometry is available here.

Note: I go by Sia, while Swechchha is my legal name and appears in all my works.

Contact: mail@swechchhaa.com LinkedIn