Alexander May

Alexander May is a Professor at Ruhr-University Bochum, affiliated with the Faculty of Mathematics and the Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security. His research focuses on cryptanalysis, post-quantum cryptography, and lattice-based security, with extensive work on cryptographic attacks targeting schemes like LWE, NTRU, McEliece, and RSA.

Research Interests: May specializes in:

• Developing optimized attacks on lattice-based cryptosystems (e.g., Kyber, Dilithium)
• Side-channel vulnerability analysis in post-quantum schemes
• Quantum algorithm applications in cryptanalysis
• Efficient decoding attacks for code-based cryptography

His recent publications (2021-2025) demonstrate consistent focus on:

• Practical cryptanalysis with reduced computational resources
• Novel approaches to breaking NIST post-quantum candidates
• Quantum-speedup techniques for key recovery
• Side-channel attacks on hardware implementations

PhD Supervision: May has supervised over 15 doctoral students including recent graduates like Carl Schneider (2024), Önder Askin (2024), and Floyd Zweydinger (2023). Their work spans lattice cryptography, coding theory, and quantum cryptanalysis.