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Tamar Kuchukhidze

Tamari Kuchukhidze is an Associate Professor at Caucasus School of Technology (CST) of Caucasus University. She is a researcher with a strong background in cybersecurity, cryptography, post-quantum cryptography, and software engineering. She holds a PH.D. degree in informatics. The topic was a post-quantum cryptosystem with a quantum random number generator. She has been actively engaged in research and development, cryptography, post-quantum cryptography and security. Tamari Kuchukhidze is the author of many scientific papers.

 

The topics of the papers are cyber security, cryptography, post-quantum cryptography, quantum cryptography.  She has published in leading Scopus Q1 and Q2 journals.  Tamari Kuchukhidze works at the Scientific Cyber Security Association as a senior cryptographer and software engineer. She gives lectures at Caucasus University, and is an associate professor. The lectures will cover the following topics: software engineering, cyber security, cryptography.  Professor Tamari Kuchukhidze is a senior researcher and is participating in the grant project: Using Verkle Trees for Post-Quantum Security (Duration: 3 years, Source: Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia).

 

She is a researcher in the NATO Science for Peace and Security (SPS) Project, topic: Post-quantum Digital Signature using Verkle Trees (Date: 2025-2027). Tamari is a researcher in the project: Automated Vulnerability Detection in Software Development Using AI Techniques (AISSAM). (Funding source: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships is the European Commission, through the Horizon Europe framework program for research and innovation.)

  1. Iavich, M., Kuchukhidze, T., & Lopata, A. (2026). Static analysis techniques for embedded, cyber-physical, and electronic software systems: a comprehensive survey. , 15(5), 1-31.
  2. Iavich, M., Kuchukhidze, T., & Bocu, R. (2025). Fractional Verkle Trees for Scalable Post-Quantum Signatures. IEEE Access.
  3. Iavich, M., Gnatyuk, S., Kuchukhidze, T., & Iashvili, G. (2025). Balancing security and efficiency in deterministic random bit generators for post-quantum cryptography. methods, 1,
  4. Iavich, M., Kuchukhidze, T., & Bocu, R. (2025). Post-Quantum Digital Signature: Verkle-Based HORST. Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy, 5(2), 28.
  5. Iavich, M., Kuchukhidze, T., & Bocu, R. (2026). Correction: Iavich et al. Post-Quantum Digital Signature: Verkle-Based HORST. J. Cybersecur. Priv. 2025, 5, 28. Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy, 6(1), 19.
  6. Iavich, M., Kuchukhidze, T., & Bocu, R. (2025) A Novel Verkle Tree-based Post-quantum Digital Signature System with Enhanced Random Number Generation.
  7. Iavich, M., Kuchukhidze, T., Gagnidze A. (2024). NOVEL POST-QUANTUM DIGITAL SIGNATURE USING VERKLE TREES AND LATTICES. Scientific and practical cyber security journal.
  8. Iavich, M., & Kuchukhidze, T. (2024). Investigating CRYSTALS-Kyber Vulnerabilities: Attack Analysis and Mitigation. Cryptography, 8(2), 15.
  9. Iavich, M., & Kuchukhidze, T. (2022, November). The Novel Multi Source Method for the Randomness Extraction. In The International Symposium on Computer Science, Digital Economy and Intelligent Systems(pp. 63-75). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
  10. Iavich, M., Kuchukhidze, T., & Bocu, R. (2023, March). A Post-quantum Cryptosystem with a Hybrid Quantum Random Number Generator. In International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications(pp. 367-378). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
  11. Iavich, M., & Kuchukhidze, T. (2023, May). Digital Signature Design Using Verkle Tree. In IVUS (pp. 83-91).
  12. Iavich, M., Kuchukhidze, T., & Okhrimenko, T. (2023, October). Verkle Tree-based Post-Quantum Digital Signature Scheme using Stateless Updatable Vector Commitment. In CPITS II (pp. 157-166).
  13. Iavich, M., Kuchukhidze, T., & Bocu, R. (2023). A post-quantum digital signature using Verkle trees and lattices. Symmetry, 15(12), 2165.
  14. Kuchukhidze, T. (2022). THE ANALYSIS OF THE POST PROCESSING METHODS FOR THE QUANTUM RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS. Scientific and practical cyber security journal.
  15. Kuchukhidze, T. (2021). THE MODEL NEW QUANTUM RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR WITH THE CORRESPONDING VERIFICATION METHOD. Scientific and practical cyber security journal.
  16. Iavich, M., Kuchukhidze, T., Gnatyuk, S., & Fesenko, A. (2021). Novel Certification Method for Quantum Random Number Generators. International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security, 13(3), 28-38.
  17. Iavich, M., Kuchukhidze, T., Iashvili, G., & Gnatyuk, S. (2021). Hybrid quantum random number generator for cryptographic algorithms. RADIOELECTRONIC AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS, (4), 103-118.
  18. Iavich, M., Kuchukhidze, T., Iashvili, G., Gnatyuk, S., & Bocu, R. (2021). Novel Quantum Random Number Generator with the Improved Certification Method.
  19. Iavich, M., Kuchukhidze, T., Okhrimenko, T., & Dorozhynskyi, S. (2020, October). Novel Quantum Random Number Generator for Cryptographical Applications. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Problems of Infocommunications. Science and Technology (PIC S&T) (pp. 727-732). IEEE.
  20. Iavich, M., Kuchukhidze, T., Gagnidze, A., & Iashvili, G. (2020). ADVANTAGES AND CHALLENGES OF QRNG INTEGRATION INTO MERKLE. Scientific and practical cyber security journal.
  21. Iavich, Maksim, and Tamari Kuchukhidze. "The Novel Multi Source Method for the Randomness Extraction." Advances in Intelligent Systems, Computer Science and Digital Economics IV. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. 63-75.
  22. Iavich, Maksim, Tamari Kuchukhidze, and Razvan Bocu. "A Post-quantum Cryptosystem with a Hybrid Quantum Random Number Generator." Advanced Information Networking and Applications: Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2023), Volume 2. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023.