A Tutorial Introduction to Lattice-based Cryptography and Homomorphic Encryption

A few of us have been working with homomorphic encryption for a number of years now, but we never found a paper / book that covers all the foundational mathematical material in one place. So we decided to write one — well my postdoc Kelvin Yang Li decided to write one and Mike Purcell and I assisted … More A Tutorial Introduction to Lattice-based Cryptography and Homomorphic Encryption

Useful Technical Tutorials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption

I have gone through quite a few articles over the last 12 months in my attempt to get a proper understanding of fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) schemes. The process was somewhat frustrating because most of the articles are either too basic, giving just very high-level intuitions, or too deep, assuming too much background on the … More Useful Technical Tutorials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption

A Note on Problem Solving for Young Researchers

Many beginning researchers find it hard to cope with the sheer amount of reading they have to do to come up to speed in a certain technical field, and the issue is often compounded by the “lacking the prerequisites to the read the prerequisites” problem due to inadequate mathematical training at the undergraduate level. Here’s … More A Note on Problem Solving for Young Researchers

The Learn-R Algorithm

Identify a problem that would benefit from using R Read An Introduction to R by Venables, Smith, and the R Core Team Work on solving the identified problem using R Get access to resources with lots of R code templates for solving different problems (e.g. Handbook of Statistical Analysis using R by Everitt and Hothorn and Data … More The Learn-R Algorithm