Damiano Abram

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Cryptography Group at Bocconi University (since June 2024), hosted by Giulio Malavolta. I have been recently awarded a Simons Institute postoctoral fellowship for the summer 2025 program on cryptography.

My research focuses on theoretical aspects of cryptography. Among my main interests are multiparty computation with minimal interaction (non-interactive MPC, homomorphic secret-sharing, pseudorandom correlation generators (PCGs), pseudorandom correlation functions (PCFs) and distributed samplers), advanced cryptographic primitives (such as obfuscation and homomorphic encryption) and the study of security models, especially in their idealised forms.

From August 2020 to June 2024, I was a PhD student in the Cryptography Group at Aarhus University, where I was supervised by Peter Scholl and Ivan Damgård. In my PhD thesis, I studied non-interactive protocols for the secure generation of common randomness.

From October 2022 to February 2023, I visited Yuval Ishai at Technion, Haifa. From June to August 2022, I worked as an intern at NTT Research (USA) under the supervision of Mark Zhandry.

In 2020, I earned a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Trento (Italy), graduating with honours. The studies were focused on cryptography and coding theory. The master thesis, titled Oblivious TLS via Multiparty Computation, was supervised by Ivan Damgård, Sven Trieflinger and Roberto Zunino.

In 2017, I obtained a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Padova (Italy), graduating with honours. The bachelor thesis, concerning Wiener’s attack against RSA, was supervised by Alberto Tonolo.