{"id":22,"date":"2019-07-02T18:30:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T18:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/oneill\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:33:14","slug":"home-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/oneill\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"22\" class=\"elementor elementor-22\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-11648852 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"11648852\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-336da109\" data-id=\"336da109\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2b5d1dd2 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2b5d1dd2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I am an Assistant Professor at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cics.umass.edu\/\">College of Information and Computer Sciences<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/\">University of Massachusetts Amherst<\/a><b>.&nbsp;<\/b>I am affiliated with the&nbsp;<a style=\"background-color: white\" href=\"http:\/\/infosec.cs.umass.edu\/\">UMass Cybersecurity Institute<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My main research interest is cryptography, in particular the design and analysis of protocols with novel security or functionality properties relevant in emerging applications of cryptography. I am also interested in improving the analyses of widely-used protocols such as Schnorr signatures and its derivatives, as well as the post-quantum Fujisaki-Okamoto encryption transform. This work entails developing new computational hardness assumptions and proof techniques. You can find some statistics about my research on my&nbsp;<a style=\"background-color: white\" href=\"mailto:adamo@cs.umass. edu\">G<\/a><a style=\"background-color: white\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;pli=1&amp;user=SIFRrBIAAAAJ\">oogle scholar profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, topics I am working on include:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18.6667px\">Encrypted search, in particular property-preserving encryption<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Advanced signature schemes such as aggregate and threshold signatures<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Analysis in idealized models such as the random oracle model<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Functional encryption, for example inner-product functional encryption<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6499d43 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6499d43\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cc80436\" data-id=\"cc80436\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4cddddc elementor-widget elementor-widget-google_maps\" data-id=\"4cddddc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"google_maps.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-custom-embed\">\n\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\"\n\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=Lederle%20Graduate%20Research%20Center&#038;t=m&#038;z=10&#038;output=embed&#038;iwloc=near\"\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle=\"Lederle Graduate Research Center\"\n\t\t\t\t\taria-label=\"Lederle Graduate Research Center\"\n\t\t\t><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an Assistant Professor at the College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst.&nbsp;I am affiliated with the&nbsp;UMass Cybersecurity Institute.&nbsp; My main research interest is cryptography, in particular the design and analysis of protocols with novel security or functionality properties relevant in emerging applications of cryptography. 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