Photo taken at the White Rabbit
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
University of Central Florida
wissam "dot" ghantous "at" ucf.edu  ·  old site

Hello! Welcome to my website.

I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Central Florida, as well as a member of the UCF Cyber Security and Privacy Cluster and the UCF Quantum Initiative.

Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher for one year at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris). Before that, I completed my PhD at the University of Oxford in 2023.

My main research interests are computational number theory and post-quantum cryptography.

Swiss landscape from the Uetliberg TV tower

Talks, Visits and Conferences

2026
Earlier talks (2019–2025)
2025
  • October 2025. Number theory seminar. UC Boulder, CO, USA.
  • October 2025. UF Algebra seminar. University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.
  • October 2025. USF RTG seminar. University of South Florida, Tampa, USA.
  • October 2025. Second Applied Algebra Workshop. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA.
  • October 2025. AMS Sectional Meeting. Tulane University, Louisiana, USA.
  • September 2025. Cifris 2025. Roma Tre University, Roma, Italy.
  • August 2025. Darmonfest: Arithmetic Cycles, Modular Forms, and L-functions. Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Montréal, Canada.
  • August 2025. Workshop on Isogeny Graphs in Cryptography. BIRS, Banff, Canada.
  • July 2025. LMFDB, Computation, and Number Theory (LuCaNT). ICERM, RI, USA.
  • June 2025. First Applied Algebra Workshop. University of South Florida, Tampa, USA.
  • May 2025. Eurocrypt. Madrid, Spain.
  • March 2025. Mid-Atlantic Seminar On Numbers VII. University of Maryland, MD, USA.
  • March 2025. The Legacy of John Tate, and Beyond. Harvard, MA, USA.
2024
  • October 2024. Québec-Maine Number Theory Conference. Université Laval, Quebec, Canada.
  • September 2024. Palmetto Number Theory Series, PANTS XXXVIII. Wake Forest University, NC, USA.
  • September 2024. Colloquium talk. University of South Florida, Tampa, USA.
  • September 2024. Colloquium talk. University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA.
  • July 2024. Sixteenth Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium, ANTS-XVI. MIT, USA.
  • June 2024. Modular Forms, L-functions, and Eigenvarieties. ENS, Paris, France.
  • May 2024. Eurocrypt. Zurich, Switzerland.
  • March 2024. Visit to UCF. Orlando, USA.
  • January 2024. Workshop Quantum Meets Classical Cryptography. Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
2023
  • August 2023. Workshop on Isogeny Graphs in Cryptography. BIRS, Banff, Canada.
  • February 2023. Wadham College SCR invited talk. University of Oxford, UK.
  • February 2023. Junior Number Theory seminar. University of Warwick, UK.
  • January 2023. Junior Number Theory seminar. University of Oxford, UK.
  • January 2023. Senior Number Theory seminar. University of Warwick, UK.
2022
  • October 2022. PQCifris 2022. University of Trento, Italy.
  • September–October 2022. Visit to McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
  • September 2022. Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms in Arithmetic Geometry, celebrating Massimo Bertolini's 60th birthday. Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy.
  • August–September 2022. Automorphic Forms Summer School. Erdős Center, Budapest, Hungary.
  • August 2022. Crypto2022 (including MathCrypt). UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
  • August 2022. Fifteenth Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium, ANTS-XV. University of Bristol, UK.
  • July 2022. ICM Sectional Workshop on Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry. ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
  • May 2022. Research visit to Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy.
2021
  • September 2021. Crittografia e codici (Italian Mathematical Union). Cryptography and Coding Theory, First Annual Conference (virtual).
  • August 2021. Workshop on Supersingular Isogeny Graphs in Cryptography (virtual). BIRS, Banff, Canada.
2019

The photo above shows the Swiss landscape seen from the Uetliberg TV tower, taken during the ICM sectional meeting of 2022.