Moustapha Camara from Senegal 🇸🇳. Moustapha was a PhD student at Université Assane Seck in Ziguinchor in Senegal. He defended his thesis in 2024. He works on rational points of algebraic curves defined over number fields and finite fields. His work, advised by Oumar Sall (Senegal), was supported by the Senegalese Ministry of Higher Education. Since September 2024, he has a permanent tenured teaching and research position at Ziguinchor University. Presentation, March 2025.
Sarielle Peka from Cameroon 🇨🇲. Sarielle is a PhD student at University of Maroua in Cameroun. She works on the endomorphism rings of elliptic curves. Her work is coadvised by Joseph Dongho (University of Maroua) and Emmanuel Fouotsa (University of Bamenda), both in Cameroon. Sarielle is supported by the Cameroonese ministries of Education and Higher Education. Since 2022, she withdrew from the project.
Anne Hanwa from Cameroon 🇨🇲. She defended her PhD thesis entitled “Applications of Elliptic Nets to the Computation of Cryptographic Pairings over the Edwards Curves” the 20th December 2024 at the university of Ngaoundere in Cameroon under the supervision of Emmanuel Fouotsa from the University of Bamenda in Cameroon and Achille Ntyam from the University of Yaoundé 1. She was supported for one year (2019) by the Simons Foundation through its program Africa Mathematics Projects May 2013 – April 2023 (via the PREMA Project in Gabon). For the remaining time, her PhD work has been supported by the Cameroonian ministry of Higher education. She is currently a part time teacher at the department of mathematics and computer science of the University of Ngaoundere. She is also general secretary of the Cameroonian women in mathematics association since 2017. Lectures: Introduction to cryptography since 2022; statistics since 2023; arithmetic for computer Science since 2025.
Mohamadou Sall from Senegal 🇸🇳. He defended his PhD thesis entitled “Normal Bases, Algebraic Groups and Finite Field Arithmetic” at Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar in Senegal in January 2021. His work, coadvised by Djiby Sow (Senegal) and Tony Ezome (Gabon), has been funded by the Simons Foundation through its program Africa Mathematics Projects May 2013 – April 2023 (via the PREMA Project in Gabon). His PhD resulted in two papers published in Journal of Symbolic Computation and Finite Fields and Their Applications. Mohamadou has been awarded a seven-months visiting fellowship at the school of Mathematics and Statistics at Carleton University, Canada, from September 2021 February 2022, to collaborate with Daniel Panario. He is now Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Hervé Tale Kalachi from Cameroon 🇨🇲. He is currently a lecturer in the Department of Computer Engineering at the National Advanced School of Engineering, University of Yaounde 1. Prior to joining the University of Yaounde 1, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Inria in the ARIC team at ENS de Lyon from April 2019 to August 2020. He defended his PhD thesis at Université de Rouen-Normandie in France in July 2017. This PhD work, coadvised by Selestin Ndjeya (Cameroon) and Ayoub Otmani (France), has been funded by the Simons Foundation through its program Africa Mathematics Projects May 2013 – April 2023 (via the PREMA Project in Gabon). He obtained his Master’s degree from the University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon.
Abdoulaye Maïga from Mali 🇲🇱. from Mali. He is a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences at “École Normale Supérieure de Bamako” since June 2023. Before this position, he was a tutor at AIMS-Senegal. Actually, Abdoulaye defended his PhD thesis in June 2022 at Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar on Canonical Lift of Abelian Variety under the supervision of Djiby Sow (Senegal) and Damien Robert (France) with the support of INRIA in France through the FAST project in the Framework of LIRIMA international Lab. He is still interested in the development of algebraic geometry tools for efficient primitives in post-quantum cryptography.