Okko Makkonen

About

I am a mathematics student at Aalto University, Finland, having received my master's degree in May 2022. I started my doctoral studies at Aalto University in August 2022 under the supervision of Professor Camilla Hollanti in the ANTA group. For 2023 I am supported by the Vilho, Yrjö and Kalle Väisälä Foundation of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.

My research interests include applications of coding theory in information-theoretically secure distributed computing. This includes secret sharing, MDS codes and star product codes. For my master's thesis I worked on secure distributed matrix multiplication. Currently I am working on the mathematical foundations of secure distributed computation. I have an Erdős number of 4.

Publications

Journal Articles

1. O. Makkonen and C. Hollanti, “General Framework for Linear Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication with Byzantine Servers,” (submitted, extended version of [C2]).
2. J. Li, O. Makkonen, C. Hollanti, and O. W. Gnilke, “Efficient Recovery of a Shared Secret via Cooperation: Applications to SDMM and PIR,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 40, 2022.

Conference Proceedings

1. O. Makkonen and C. Hollanti, “Secure Distributed Gram Matrix Multiplication,” 2023 Information Theory Workshop (ITW), (to appear).
2. O. Makkonen and C. Hollanti, “General Framework for Linear Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication with Byzantine Servers,” 2022 Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2022.
3. O. Makkonen and C. Hollanti, “Analog Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication over Complex Numbers,” 2022 International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2022.

Theses

• “New Schemes for Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication: Cooperative and Analog SDMM,” Master's thesis in Mathematics, Aalto University, 2022.