Dr. Svetla Petkova-Nikova

I am currently Assistent Professor at the research group
Distributed and Embedded Security at
University of Twente, The Netherlands
and Postdoctoral Fellow in the research group COSIC
in the Electrical Engineering Department
of the Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven, Belgium.
I was born in Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria. I received my M. Sc. degree from the
Sofia
University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia,
Bulgaria in 1993 and received Ph. D. degree from
the Eindhoven University of
Technology,
Eindhoven, the Netherlands in 1998.
In 1999 I have worked as assistant-professor at the Department of
Mathematics
and Informatics, Veliko
Turnovo University, Veliko
Turnovo, Bulgaria.

Research Interests
- Cryptography
- Secret Sharing Schemes, Commitment Schemes
- Multiparty Computation, Oblivious Transfer
- Resilient and Correlation-Immune Functions
- Boolean functions used in Block Ciphers
(S-boxes)
- Coding Theory
- Codes and Designs in Polynomial Metric
Spaces
- Linear Programming Bounds for Codes and
Designs
- Covering Radius
- Minimal Codewords
- Reed–Muller Codes
List of Publications
Publications COSIC
Publications DIES

Address
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
ESAT-COSIC
Kasteelpark Arenberg 10
B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee
Belgium
Tel : +32 16 32 96 18
Fax : +32 16 32 19 69
E-mail : svetla.nikova@esat.kuleuven.be

Last modified: Mar 20 2011