BIO

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing Sciences at Bocconi University. I am also affiliated with the Bocconi Institute for Data Science and Analytics and with the CIFRA Lab. My research focuses on mathematical aspects of cryptography, computer security, and quantum computing.

Prior to joining Bocconi, I was a faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, and before that a postdoc at UC Berkeley and at Carnegie Mellon University. In summer 2025 and fall 2019 I was at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing.  I completed my PhD in 2019 at Friedrich-Alexander University.

Honors and awards:

• Heinz-Maier Leibnitz prize

• ERC Starting grant

• Staedtler-Stiftung dissertation prize

Email: giuliø.malavølta@høtmail.it (substituting ø with o).

Office: Room 2-C2-02, via G. Röntgen 1, Milano.

News: The Grothendieck constant is strictly larger than Davie-Reeds' bound.

TEACHING

I am teaching Computing Theory and Algorithms and Theoretical Computer Science.

Lecture notes of previous courses and seminars are available here: Sum of Squares.

RESEARCH GROUP

My research group is generously supported by grants from the CASA cluster of excellence for cyber security, the European Research Council, and a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship. Below is a list of the current members.

Postdocs: Valerio Cini.

PhD Students: Alexander Kulpe and Tianwei Zhang.

Alumni:

• Phillip Gajland - Efficient Lattice-Based Cryptography: Key Exchange, Signatures, and Extensions.

• Noemi Gläser - Practical Cryptography for Blockchains: Secure Protocols with Minimal Trust.

• Ahmadreza Rahimi - Registration-Based Encryption.

ACADEMIC SERVICE

I served (or will serve) as a program committee member for the following conferences:

(2026) TCC
(2025) EUROCRYPT, QCrypt
(2024) ITC, ITCS, TCC
(2023) ICALP, QCrypt, TCC, TQC
(2022) ASIACRYPT, EUROCRYPT, PKC, QCW, S&P (Oakland)
(2021) CCS, CVC, PKC
(2020) CRYPTO, CVC, SBC

I also served as a reviewer for the Journal of Cryptology, for the European Research Council, and for the Israeli Science Foundation.

I co-organized the following workshops:

• Kyoto Quantum Cryptography

• Theory and Practice of Laconic Cryptography at EUROCRYPT 2025.

• Theory and Practice of Laconic Cryptography at EUROCRYPT 2024.

• The Multiple Facets of Quantum Proofs at STOC 2022.

I also co-organized the IACR Summer School on Post-Quantum Cryptography and the CSP-IAS 2026 Winter school on Cryptography and Machine Learning.

PUBLICATIONS

For an updated list of publications, please refer to dblp or Google Scholar.

FAMILY

My wife does machine learning!