Carles Padró

Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain


Postal address:
Campus Nord UPC, Edifici C3
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
C. Jordi Girona, 1-3
08034 Barcelona
Spain

e-mail: carles padro at upc edu
URL: web.mat.upc.edu/carles.padro/
Telephone: +34 93 401 6041
Fax: +34 93 401 5981


Short CV

Born in Manresa, Catalonia, Spain, in 1964. Graduate in Mathematics, Universitat de Barcelona, 1988. PhD Student and Lecturer in the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya from 1988 to 1994. Doctor in Mathematics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 1994. Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya from 1997. Senior Research Fellow in the Division of Mathematical Sciences, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore from September 2010 to August 2014 (on leave from the position at UPC Barcelona).


Research

Currently, my research is mainly devoted to Cryptology. I am interested mainly in problems in Algebra and Combinatorics related to Secret Sharing.

Manuscripts and Preprints

Recent Publications

Complete list of publications

Recent Seminars and Invited Talks

Complete list of seminars and invited talks

PhD Students

I have been the (co-)advisor of the PhD Thesis:

  1. An Yang. Secret Sharing Schemes and Polymatroids. NTU (2014). Co-advisor with Chaoping Xing
  2. Oriol Farràs. Multipartite Secret Sharing Schemes. UPC (2010)
  3. Leonor Vázquez. Sobre la optimización de la eficiencia de los esquemas de compartición de secretos (in Spanish, On the Optimization of the Efficiency of Secret Sharing Schemes). UPC (2010)
  4. Vanesa Daza. On Linear Secret Sharing Schemes and Distributed Cryptographic Protocols. UPC (2004).
  5. Daniela Ferrero. Graphs and hypergraphs as interconnection network models. UPC (1999)
  6. Germán Sáez. Esquemes per a compartir secrets (in Catalan, Secret Sharing Schemes). UPC (1998)

PhD Thesis

Other Research Activities

Complete list of other research activities


Teaching

I have taught many different subjects at UPC:

In the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, NTU, I taught the graduate course Discrete Methods (MAS-711) from 2011 to 2014

In May-June 2012, I taught a short course entitled Applications of Combinatorics to Information-Theoretic Cryptography at the Central European University, Budapest

Teaching Publications


These pages were created by Carles Padró on March 6, 2000.

Last Update: February 9, 2024