Jānis Buls

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Born: 1950 Rīga
 
Education: 1966 - 1969 Riga 1st secondary school, pupil
1969 - 1974 Latvia State University, faculty of physics and mathematics, student
1984 - 1987 Latvia State University, faculty of physics and mathematics, post-graduate student
 
Academic titles 1988 Candidate of sciences (physics and mathematics)
and scientific degrees: 1992 Dr. Math.
1992 docents
2007 associated professor (mathematics)
 
Positions held: 1974 - 1979 Latvian SSR, Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics and Energetics, engineer, afterwards senior engineer
1979 - 1984 Latvia State University, assistant
1987 - 2007 University of Latvia, assistant, afterwards lecturer, afterwards docents
2007 - now University of Latvia, associated professor
 
Selected research grants: 1997 - 2000 Research project of Latvian Council of Science 96.0138
„Effectiveness of cryptosystem”
2000 - 2003 Research project of Latvian Council of Science 01.0835
„Security of multipositional signature scheme”
2004 - 2008 Research project of Latvian Council of Science 04.1126
„Stream cipher keys and their controllable generator’s design”
2005 - 2008 Research project of Latvian Council of Science 05.1449
„Dynamics of mappings in metric spaces”
 
Membership: Latvian Mathematical Society
 
Areas of interest: discrete mathematics, algebra, theoretical computer science:
theory of algorithms and cryptography