Anamaria Costache

Anamaria Costache is an Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology. Previously, she held roles including a postdoc at Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), a Research Scientist at Intel AI Research, and a part-time position at Intel. She earned her PhD from the University of Bristol and undergraduate/master's degrees from the University of Warwick, focusing on number theory and algebraic structures like Brauer Groups.

Her research interests center on fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), privacy-preserving machine learning, lattice-based cryptography, and post-quantum security protocols. Her work is supported by Intel, addressing challenges in secure computation on encrypted data. She has authored numerous publications in top venues like CRYPTO, PKC, and IEEE conferences, focusing on FHE optimizations, biometric systems, and cryptographic security analyses.

Teaching includes courses on applied cryptography, network security, and quantum-safe encryption at NTNU. She co-chairs NIKT 2019 and the WAHC workshops (2022–2024), and serves on editorial boards for journals like IACR Communications in Cryptology. She actively participates in program committees for conferences such as MathCrypt and FHE.org.

Professional service includes the Lattigo Advisory Committee and contributions to the Bristol Crypto Blog. Her current projects emphasize verifiable computation over encrypted data and resilient authentication mechanisms in biometric systems.