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:
EUROCRYPT. May 4-8, Madrid.
Workshop on Secret Sharing Schemes. May 12-14, Tarragona
Combinatorial Geometries and Geometric Combinatorics. Fall 2025. CRM
News:
Presentation at the "Physical layer security for trustworthy and resilient 6G systems" (6G-PHYSEC) COST-action meeting. January 28, UAB.
Reducing the Share Size of Weighted Threshold Secret Sharing Schemes via Chow Parameters Approximation, a joint work with Miquel Guiot, presented at TCC 2024. Full version: eprint.
Secret-Sharing Schemes for High Slices, a joint work with Amos Beimel, Or Lasri and Oded Nir, presented at TCC 2024. Full version: eprint.
Leveraging HLS to Design a Versatile & High-Performance Classic McEliece Accelerator, a joint work with Vatistas Kostalabros, Xavier Carril, Jordi Ribes-González, Carles Hernández and Miquel Moretó, accepted at ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems.
Presentation Criptografia: passat, present i futur. at Campus Físico-Matemàtic. July 16, Tarragona.
Optimizing Extension Techniques for Discovering Non-Algebraic Matroids, a joint work with Michael Bamiloshin, at arXiv.
Hardware Acceleration for High-Volume Operations of CRYSTALS-Kyber and CRYSTALS-Dilithium, a joint work with Xavier Carril, Charalampos Kardaris, Jordi Ribes-González, Carles Hernández, Vatistas Kostalabros, Joel Ulises González-Jiménez i Miquel Moretó, published in ACM TRETS.
Teaching:
(1st sem.) Cryptography and Information Security (MESIIA, URV), Projectes d'Enginyeria (GEMiF, 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): EUROCRYPT 2025, RECSI 2024, ACM CCS 2024, ACNS 2023, Encuentro Ibérico de Matemáticas 2022, Latincrypt 2021, TCC 2020, Itinerant Cryptography Seminars, DCSM 2022-24.