Ignacio Cascudo


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Since June 2023 I am Associate Research Professor at IMDEA Software Institute in Madrid, Spain.

Previously I held the following positions:

  • September 2020 - May 2023: Assistant Research Professor at IMDEA Software Institute (Madrid, Spain)
  • September 2017 - August 2019: Associate Professor at Department Mathematics, Aalborg University (Aalborg, Denmark)
  • April 2016 - August 2017: Assistant Professor at Department Mathematics, Aalborg University (Aalborg, Denmark)
  • April 2014 - March 2016: Postdoc at Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University (Aarhus, Denmark), under the supervision of Prof. Ivan Damgård
  • July 2010 - February 2014: Postdoc at CWI -Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica- (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) under the supervision of Prof. Ronald Cramer
  • April 2006 - June 2010: PhD student at University of Oviedo (Oviedo, Spain) under the supervision of Prof. Consuelo Martínez and Ronald Cramer

Research interests:

My main area of expertise is cryptography, where I work in the topic of secure multiparty computation and its building blocks such as secret sharing schemes, commitment schemes, oblivious transfer protocols, etc.

I am especially interested in the interplay between these topics and both the theory of error-correcting codes and abstract algebra: finite fields, algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry…


*Name: My full name is Ignacio Cascudo Pueyo. As Spaniard, I have two surnames, Cascudo coming from my father and Pueyo from my mother. Cascudo is therefore a surname and not a middle name, and I actually don't have a middle name. I ignore the second surname in publications etc., since it leads to confusion to many non-Hispanic people.
Also a common nickname for Ignacio in Spain is "Nacho".