2026 Thomas Peyrin: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	34	11985	11638	159	159	122	7011

Overview

Thomas Peyrin is affiliated with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Their research focuses primarily on computer science, with significant work in artificial intelligence and cryptography. The scope of their publications extends to subfields such as computer vision and pattern recognition, hardware and architecture, signal processing, and electrical and electronic engineering.

Their main topics of study include:

Cryptographic Implementations and Security
Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption
Coding Theory and Cryptography
Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning

Thomas Peyrin has contributed to numerous research papers, with notable recent publications such as:

"Duel of the Titans: The Romulus and Remus Families of Lightweight AEAD Algorithms," 2020, published in IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
"Duel of the Titans: The Romulus and Remus Families of Lightweight AEAD Algorithms," 2020, published in DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
"Fixslicing AES-like Ciphers," 2020, published in IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
"SKINNY-AEAD and SKINNY-Hash," 2020, published in IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
"The Deoxys AEAD Family," 2021, published in Journal of Cryptology

Their frequent co-authors include:

Adrien Benamira
David Gérault
Jérémy Jean
Quan Quan Tan
Mustafa Khairallah

Thomas Peyrin's works have been published predominantly in venues such as:

IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
arXiv (Cornell University)
IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
Journal of Cryptology

Best Publications

The LED Block Cipher.

Jian Guo;Thomas Peyrin;Axel Poschmann;Matthew J. B. Robshaw

1126
Citations
The SKINNY Family of Block Ciphers and its Low-Latency Variant MANTIS.

Christof Beierle;Jérémy Jean;Stefan Kölbl;Gregor Leander

756
Citations
The PHOTON family of lightweight Hash functions

Jian Guo;Thomas Peyrin;Axel Poschmann

675
Citations
GIFT : A Small Present

Subhadeep Banik;Subhadeep Banik;Sumit Kumar Pandey;Thomas Peyrin;Yu Sasaki

485
Citations
Tweaks and Keys for Block Ciphers: the TWEAKEY Framework.

Jérémy Jean;Ivica Nikolic;Thomas Peyrin

283
Citations
Super-Sbox cryptanalysis: improved attacks for AES-like permutations

Henri Gilbert;Thomas Peyrin

241
Citations
Boomerang Connectivity Table: A New Cryptanalysis Tool.

Carlos Cid;Tao Huang;Thomas Peyrin;Yu Sasaki

176
Citations
Security challenges in automotive hardware/software architecture design

Florian Sagstetter;Martin Lukasiewycz;Sebastian Steinhorst;Marko Wolf

132
Citations
Hash functions and the (amplified) boomerang attack

Antoine Joux;Thomas Peyrin

127
Citations
Counter-in-Tweak: Authenticated Encryption Modes for Tweakable Block Ciphers

Thomas Peyrin;Yannick Seurin

126
Citations
Lightweight MDS Involution Matrices.

Siang Meng Sim;Khoongming Khoo;Frédérique E. Oggier;Thomas Peyrin

125
Citations
Improved Cryptanalysis of the Reduced Grøstl Compression Function, ECHO Permutation and AES Block Cipher

Florian Mendel;Thomas Peyrin;Christian Rechberger;Martin Schläffer

105
Citations
A Deeper Look at Machine Learning-Based Cryptanalysis.

Adrien Benamira;David Gérault;Thomas Peyrin;Quan Quan Tan

100
Citations
FOAM: Searching for Hardware-Optimal SPN Structures and Components with a Fair Comparison.

Khoongming Khoo;Thomas Peyrin;Axel Poschmann;Huihui Yap

97
Citations
Improved Differential Attacks for ECHO and Grostl.

Thomas Peyrin

96
Citations
Freestart Collision for Full SHA-1

Marc Stevens;Pierre Karpman;Thomas Peyrin

92
Citations
Structural Evaluation of AES and Chosen-Key Distinguisher of 9-round AES-128.

Pierre-Alain Fouque;Jérémy Jean;Thomas Peyrin

92
Citations
GIFT: A Small Present Towards Reaching the Limit of Lightweight Encryption

Subhadeep Banik;Sumit Kumar Pandey;Thomas Peyrin;Yu Sasaki

92
Citations
Optimizing Implementations of Lightweight Building Blocks

Jérémy Jean;Thomas Peyrin;Siang Meng Sim;Jade Tourteaux

83
Citations
Unaligned rebound attack: application to keccak

Alexandre Duc;Jian Guo;Thomas Peyrin;Lei Wei

76
Citations
Cryptanalysis of GRINDAHL

Thomas Peyrin

73
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lei Wang Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Yu Sasaki NTT (Japan)

Amir Moradi Technical University of Darmstadt

Florian Mendel Infineon Technologies (Germany)

Josef Pieprzyk Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Lei Wei Nanyang Technological University

Willi Meier University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland

Christian Rechberger Graz University of Technology

Gregor Leander Ruhr University Bochum

Pierre-Alain Fouque University of Rennes

External Links

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