Graz University of Technology is world-renowned for its outstanding cybersecurity research. Thanks to the funding provided by “Zukunftsfonds Steiermark”, the university is able to established two new research groups:

• Team CryptEng: For safe cryptographic implementations
• Team Trusted AI: For trustworthy artificial intelligence

“Quantum computers could render many of the current encryption algorithms useless. We need post-quantum cryptography.”
Under the leadership of Prof. Sinha Roy, the first group is focused on exploring the realm of post-quantum cryptography. Recognizing the potential vulnerability of current encryption algorithms to quantum computers, the team works at the forefront of developing the next generation of cryptographic systems that can effectively withstand quantum attacks.

“Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly deployed in safety critical applications. We need to be able to trust its decisions.”
Prof. Könighofer and her team use rigorous methods to provide correctness guarantees for AI-systems. The team studies model-based methods to automatically correct the decisions made by AI-systems and to provide explanations for its decisions that are understandable to the end-user.