SZE, Tsz Wo (Nicholas)

I graduated with a Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park in 2007, under the supervision of Prof. Lawrence C. Washington. My mentors were Prof. Clyde Kruskal and Prof. Jonathan Katz.

Research Interests

Number theory, algorithms, cryptology

Papers

• On Taking r-th Roots without r-th Nonresidues over Finite Fields and Its Applications
  (arXiv:1105.5852)
• Deterministic Primality Proving on Proth Numbers
  (arXiv:0812.2596)
• On Taking Square Roots without Quadratic Nonresidues over Finite Fields
  Mathematics of Computation, 80(275):1797–1811, Jul 2011.
  (Earlier versions available at arXiv:0812.2591)
• A Potentially Fast Primality Test
  (PDF file)

Ph.D. Dissertation

• On Solving Univariate Polynomial Equations over Finite Fields and Some Related Problems
  (http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7632)

Master Papers

• Construction of Composite Numbers by Recursively Exponential Numbers
  (PDF file)
• Cyclotomic Cartesian Authentication Codes
  (http://hdl.handle.net/1783.1/5723)

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