Jérôme Govinden

I’m a final‑year PhD candidate at TU Darmstadt, under the supervision of Jean Paul Degabriele. My research centers around symmetric-key cryptography, particularly on the efficient design, analysis, and implementation of provably secure schemes with real-world applications.

In Fall 2024, I visited the Cryptography Group at the University of Washington, hosted by Stefano Tessaro. Previously, I was a research intern in the Cryptography Research Center (CRC) of TII and in the LIP6 Computer Science Laboratory. I hold a Master degree in Mathematics (Paris Cité University) and Computer Science (Sorbonne University).

You can find me on linkedin, and check out my CV and publications.

Academic Services

External Reviewer
2025: ACM CCS
2024: CRYPTO, ACNS
2023: CRYPTO, ACM CCS
2022: CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, ACM CCS, CT-RSA
2021: CT-RSA, Financial Cryptography

Teaching

Technische Universität Darmstadt
Winter semester 2021/2022: Teaching assistant for the lecture Symmetric Cryptography by Jean Paul Degabriele
Winter semester 2020/2021: Teaching assistant for the lecture Symmetric Cryptography by Jean Paul Degabriele

Thesis supervision

Master thesis
A. C. T.: Analysis of the symmetric encryption mechanisms in the PDF 2.0 specification, 2025
Bachelor thesis
P. H.: Performance Analysis of Multilinear Galois Mode and variants, 2024
C. M.: Analysis of the Impact of Dovetail Routing on the Anonymity of the Lightning Network (co-supervised by Jean Paul Degabriele), 2022