Vasyl Ustymenko
DepartmentCybersecurity Department
PositionHead of Department
Academic degreeDoctor of Sciences (Physics and Mathematics)
Academic titleProfessor
CouncilsDeputy Chair, Dissertation CouncilMember, Academic Council
ORCID iD0000-0002-2138-2357

About

Author of more than 200 publications, including 3 monographs and 2 textbooks.

A well-known scientist in the field of information technology and cybersecurity, applied algebra and discrete mathematics.

Main areas of research

  • Multivariate cryptography related to the use of algebraic combinatorics
  • Noncommutative cryptography in terms of the theory of groups and semigroups of transformations of affine spaces
  • Construction of new LDPC codes for satellite communication based on extremal graphs
  • Post-quantum cryptology and coding theory

Awards and honours

  • 2010
    UMCS Rector’s Award, 3rd degree
  • 2004
    FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation) Fellowship, Brazil
  • 1998
    Royal Society Fellowship, United Kingdom
  • 1997–1999
    CRDF (Civilian Research and Development Foundation) Fellowship, USA
  • 1997–98
    Fellowship of the National Science Foundation (USA), extension of the NRC grant
  • 1996–1997
    MSRI (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute) Fellowship, Berkeley, California
  • 1994–1995
    Fellowship of the International Science Foundation, grants RKJ000 & RKJ200
  • 1994–1995
    Fellowship of the National Science Foundation (USA), grant DMS-9115473
  • 1993
    Fellowship of the National Science Foundation (USA), grant DMS-9115473
  • 1993
    Fellowship of the International Science Foundation (Soros Foundation)
  • 1992
    Fellowship of the National Science Foundation (USA), grant DMS-9115473
  • 1991
    Fellowship of the National Science Foundation (USA) and the Academy of Sciences (USSR), international cooperation grant DMS-9020485