Associate professor (agregat) at Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Computer Engineering and Mathematics Dept.
Coordinator of the PhD programme in Computer Science and Mathematics of Security.
email: oriol.farras [at] urv.cat
Address: Office 137, ETSE, Campus Sescelades, E-43007 Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.
Research interests: secret sharing schemes, cryptography, information theory, matroid theory, and combinatorics.
Upcoming events:
Doctoral Workshop in Computer Science and Mathematics. April 23, Tarragona.
Mathematical Theories of Communication: Old and New, talk by Madhu Sudan at IEC, May 9, Barcelona.
Encuentros red MatSI. June 5-7, Alacant.
Conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography. August 14-16, Stanford.
News:
Secret-Sharing Schemes for High Slices, a joint work with Amos Beimel and Oded Nir, at eprint.
Presentation Recent advances in Secret Sharing Schemes for General Access Structures, at Itinerant Cryptography Seminars. February 2, UPC, Barcelona.
Presentation RISC-V Acceleration of PQC at Seminario CAPAP-H y Red RISC-V, January 31 at Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna.
A Safety-Critical, RISC-V SoC Integrated and ASIC-Ready Classic McEliece Accelerator, a joint work with Vatistas Kostalabros, Jordi Ribes-González, Miquel Moretó and Carles Hernandez, accepted at Applied Reconfigurable Computing (ARC) Symposium.
Presentation Recent advances in Secret Sharing Schemes for General Access Structures, at Congreso Bienal de la RSME. January 23, Pamplona.
One-out-of-q OT Combiners, a joint work with Jordi Ribes-González, accepted at IEEE TIT.
Improved Polynomial Secret-Sharing Schemes, a joint work with Amos Beimel and Or Lasri, presented at TCC'23. At eprint.
A Note on Extension Properties and Representations of Matroids, a joint work with Michael Bamiloshin and Carles Padró, at arXiv.
Kameleon, the fourth generation of the Lagarto processor series, submitted for fabrication via Europractice, June 2023.
Teaching:
(1st sem.) Cryptography and Information Security (MESIIA, URV)
(2nd sem.) Cryptography and Blockchain Technology (MECMAT, URV-UOC), Estructures Algebraiques (GEMiF, URV), Matemàtica Discreta II (GEI, URV).
Research groups and Projects: CRISES, COPRICA, DRAC, Red RISC-V, CYBERCAT
Program Committee (latest): ACM CCS 2024, ACNS 2023, Encuentro Ibérico de Matemáticas 2022, Latincrypt 2021, TCC 2020, Itinerant Cryptography Seminar, DCSM.