Craig Costello

Craig Costello

Professor in the School of Computer Science at QUT.
Chief Investigator in the MathQuEST ARC Centre of Excellence.

I work on post-quantum cryptography and computational number theory.

QUTMathQuEST
An hourglass with a quantum computer suspended inside

Watch and listen

All audio and video
All podcasts, interviews and videos (11)
All written media (18)

Research Publications

All papers
All papers (42)
42 entries

Research Talks

All research talks
All research talks (72)
72 entries

Tutorials

The isogeny tutorial is a historical introduction to SIDH, which is no longer secure.

Teaching at QUT

I teach algorithms, cryptography and cybersecurity, connecting mathematical ideas with the systems people use every day.

CAB340

Cryptography
Unit Coordinator and Lecturer. Intuition before mathematics; examples before definitions.

CAB301

Algorithms and Complexity
Lecturer.

IFB240

Cyber Security
Lecturer.

Supervision and mentoring

Current supervision · QUT

  • Yintong Luo
    PhD · principal supervision
  • Subhradip Palchaudhuri
    PhD · principal supervision
  • Jackson Riding
    Honours · co-supervision

Previous PhD co-supervision

Microsoft Research interns

Summer research projects I supervised at Microsoft. Institutions shown are those at the time of the internship.

Service

CANS 2026 · Program Co-Chair

IACR Communications in Cryptology · Editorial board member (2026–ongoing)

Program committees

2027

EUROCRYPT · CRYPTO

2026

ACISP

2025

CRYPTO (Area Chair) · ACISP

Earlier program committees
2024

CRYPTO · EUROCRYPT

2023

ACISP

2022

ASIACRYPT · PKC

2021

CT-RSA

2020

CRYPTO

2019

SAC · PKC

2018

WAIFI · FC

2016

PST

2015

ACISP · PST

2013

SAC

Let’s work on hard problems.

Interested in a PhD, Masters or Honours project with me at QUT?

Please get in touch only if your existing studies or research demonstrate a relevant background in mathematics, computer science or cryptography, together with a clear interest in my research areas.

Get in touch

Post-quantum cryptography · Computational number theory · Quantum algorithms

Experience

Nov 2012–Jan 2025

Microsoft Research

Researcher → Senior Researcher → Principal Researcher
Redmond, USA

Roles at Microsoft Research

Principal Researcher, Sep 2020–Jan 2025; Senior Researcher, Sep 2019–Sep 2020; Researcher, Aug 2014–Sep 2019; Postdoctoral Researcher, Nov 2012–Aug 2014.