Martin Albrecht
Professor at King's College London
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMartin Albrecht is a cryptography professor and principal research scientist based in London, with 15 years of experience investigating the hardness of lattice problems and the concrete security of Learning with Errors (LWE) instances. He bridges deep theoretical research—assessing assumptions behind multilinear maps—with practical, performance-minded implementations, notably improving lattice-reduction support in the widely used SageMath project. His academic career spans roles from postdoc to professor at Royal Holloway and King's College London, and he co-wrote an EPSRC grant on multilinear maps. He also brings entrepreneurial and systems experience, having co-founded a featured social shopping startup and developed real-time robot control software early in his career. Known for combining rigorous security analysis with hands-on coding, he focuses on turning subtle cryptanalytic insights into usable, high-performance tools.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cryptography, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cryptography at Royal Holloway, University of LondonDiplom, Computer Science, Diplom, Computer Science at Universität Bremen
German, English
Github Skills (12)
algorithm10
mathematics10
data-structures10
algorithms10
sage10
math10
python10
data-structure10
linear-algebra9
cython7
c-language4
cprogramming-language4
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
sagemath/sage
Dec 2012 - Jan 2023
Main repository of SageMath
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 195 commits, 1 PR in 10 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily worked on improving the lattice reduction algorithms within the SageMath library, specifically focusing on integration and optimization of the FPLLL and FPyLLL libraries. Their contributions include updating and enforcing specific versions of FPLLL, adding transformation matrix functionality to the LLL function, and adapting the code to accommodate different versions of the underlying mathematical libraries. These changes likely aimed to enhance the performance and accuracy of lattice-based computations within the SageMath system.
malb/emacs.d
Jul 2015 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2397 commits, 822 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
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