Biography
Francesco Antognazza is a Postdoctoral researcher working in the field of Post-Quantum Cryptography and efficient hardware designs at University of California, Irvine. His research interests include digital systems design and verification, HW/SW co-design and Side-Channel Attacks.
Interests
- Digital Systems Design
- HW/SW co-design
- Cryptography
Education
Ph.D. in Information Technology, 2025
Politecnico di Milano
M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, 2020
Politecnico di Milano
B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, 2017
Politecnico di Milano
Grants and Awards
Nominee Best Student Paper Award
Ph.D. Scholarship
Collaboration with the R&D personnel of the cryptography and computer security division on the topic “Hardware Implementation of Post-Quantum Cryptographic Algorithms for the IoT”
Recent Publications
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(2025).
Hardware Design and Implementation of Post-Quantum Cryptographic Algorithms: the case of NTRU, HQC and CROSS.
Ph.D. Thesis.
(2025).
An Efficient and Unified RTL Accelerator Design for HQC-128, HQC-192, and HQC-256.
IEEE Trans. Computers.
(2024).
A Versatile and Unified HQC Hardware Accelerator.
Applied Cryptography and Network Security - 22nd International Conference, ACNS 2024, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, March 5-8, 2024, Proceedings.
(2024).
A High Efficiency Hardware Design for the Post-Quantum KEM HQC.
IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 2024, Tysons Corner, VA, USA, May 6-9, 2024.
Contact
- francesco.antognazza@uci.edu
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