Quantum Security & Communication
Getting a qubit from one place to another, and the cryptography that depends on whether you can.
Technical Curriculum & Active Tracks
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD)
Simulating BB84, E91 protocols and decoy-state transmission across fiber channels.
Post-Quantum Cryptography
Lattice-based cryptography (Kyber, Dilithium) and hash-based signature schemes.
Quantum Error Correction
Surface codes, stabilizer formalisms, and fault-tolerant logical qubit operations.
Core Stack & Tooling
Recommended Foundations
- Discrete mathematics & probability
- Information theory
- Basic quantum mechanics
Who leads this domain
Faculty Mentor
Dr. R. Thilagavathy
Associate Professor in the Department of Computing Technologies, with a PhD from Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology and twenty-one years of academic experience. Her published specialisations run across quantum machine learning, quantum communication, and quantum cryptography, alongside data mining and natural language processing.
Faculty Mentor
Dr. Gayathri M
Associate Professor in the Department of Computing Technologies, with a PhD from SRM Institute of Science and Technology and sixteen years in teaching and research. She works on biometric security, visual cryptography, and medical image analysis, with quantum computing and the Internet of Things among her published interests.
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