Lubjana Beshaj, Ph.D.

 

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Assistant Professor
Cyber Fellow of Mathematics, Army Cyber Institute

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Mathematics, Oakland University, 2016
M.S. Mathematics, University of Vlora, 2010
B.S. Mathematics and Physics, University of Vlora, 2008

 

 

Dr. Lubjana Beshaj is a Cyber Fellow of Mathematics at the Army Cyber Institute and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at West Point. She is a member of the American Mathematical Society and Women in Mathematics. Her research interests include cryptography, elliptic and hyperelliptic curve cryptography, post-quantum cryptography more specifically isogeny based cryptography, Jacobian varieties, and arithmetic of algebraic curves.

She has co-edited two books:

• Algebraic curves and their applications, edited by L. Beshaj and T. Shaska, Contemporary Math. American Math. Soc. volume 724, 2019
• Advances on Superelliptic Curves and Their Applications edited by T.Shaska, E.Zhupa, L.Beshaj, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series D: Information and Communication Security, IOS Press, Amsterdam 2015

Dr. Lubjana Beshaj has organized several conference and AMS special sessions:

• Organizer: Cyber defense and cryptography in undergraduate education, with T. Shaska, March 13-15 (Saturday - Sunday), 2020, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
• Organizer: Mathematical Cryptology, AMS Sectional Meeting, April 13-14 (Saturday - Sunday), 2019, University of Connecticut Hartford, Hartford, CT
• Organizer: Algebraic Curves and their applications, AMS Special Session "Algebraic curves and their applications", Orlando, September, 2017
• Organizer: Special Session on Arithmetic of Algebraic Curves with A. Malmendier and C. Shor, Knoxville, March 2014
• Organizer: Special Session on Computational Advances on Special Functions and Tropical Geometry with Emma Previato
• Co-organizer: MCAG 2012, Michigan Computational Algebraic Geometry
• Co-organizer: ACA 2010, Applications of Computer Algebra