Prof. Dr. Violetta Weger
Academic Career and Research Areas
Prof. Weger's research is in code-based cryptography. This intersection of coding theory and cryptography constitutes one of the most important candidates for post-quantum cryptography, i.e. cryptographic systems that are resistant to attacks from quantum computers. Prof. Weger works on the construction and security analysis of such systems and researches new mathematical objects that can be used for these purposes.
Prof. Weger studied mathematics at the University of Zurich and obtained her Ph.D. in 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Rosenthal. From 2021 to 2022, Prof. Weger was a postdoctoral researcher at UCD, Ireland and at TU Munich with a Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship. From 2022 to 2024, Prof. Weger was a Marie-Curie Fellow at TU Munich and at TU Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Since August 2024, Prof. Weger has been a Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Assistant Professor at TUM and a Fellow of TUM IAS.
Key Publications (all publications)
Marco Baldi, Sebastian Bitzer, Alessio Pavoni, Paolo Santini, Antonia Wachter-Zeh, Violetta Weger. Zero Knowledge Protocols and Signatures from the Restricted Syndrome Decoding Problem. PKC 2024.
AbstractEimear Byrne, Violetta Weger. Bounds in the Lee Metric and Optimal Codes. Finite Fields and Their Applications, Volume 87, 102151, 2023.
AbstractVioletta Weger, Karan Khathuria, Anna-Lena Horlemann, Massimo Battaglioni, Paolo Santini, Edoardo Persichetti. On the Hardness of the Lee Syndrome Decoding Problem. Advances in Mathematics of Communications, 2022.
AbstractEimear Byrne, Anna-Lena Horlemann, Karan Khathuria, Violetta Weger. Density of Free Modules over Finite Chain Rings. Linear Algebra and its Applications, Volume 651, 2022.
AbstractGiacomo Micheli, Severin Schraven, Violetta Weger. Local to global principle for expected values. Journal of Number Theory, Volume 238, 2022.
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