PhD student · Cryptography
Jalal Alizadeh
PhD student at the Department of Cybersecurity, Azerbaijan Technical University, Baku.
I build electronic voting on lattices, so that ballots stay secret even against a quantum computer.
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About
I teach and work on cryptography at both ends of the stack: the number theory and algebra that public-key schemes rest on, and the engineering that keeps real implementations correct, constant-time and hard to misuse.
Alongside research and teaching I work as a senior programmer, which keeps my view of cryptography close to the code that has to ship it.
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Research
Current project
Post-quantum electronic voting
Homomorphic encryption lets an election be tallied without decrypting a single ballot. Classical schemes such as Paillier do this well today, but rest on factoring, which a quantum computer breaks. I study lattice-based schemes such as BFV as a replacement, and what it takes to make them practical for a real voting system.
- Electronic voting
- Post-quantum cryptography
- Lattices · LWE
- Homomorphic encryption
- Lightweight block ciphers
2026Comparative Analysis of Paillier and BFV Cryptosystems for Building an Electronic Voting SystemJ. Alizadeh, A. HuseynliInternational Journal on Information Technologies and Security, 18(2), 83–942026Dipper: A Lightweight Hybrid SPN–ARX Block CipherA. Huseynli, Y. Imamverdiyev, J. AlizadehCryptography (MDPI), 10(4), 52
Fall 2026
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Education
Now
PhD, Cybersecurity
MSc
Application Software
BSc
Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
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Experience
Now
Senior Programmer
Now
Instructor, cryptography
LanguagesAzerbaijani and Russian (native), English (intermediate)