I am a faculty member in the Cryptography,
Security, and Privacy (CrySP) group,
and in the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute.
I am also an affiliate faculty member in
the Systems and Networks
group, and an affiliate member of the Institute for Quantum Computing.
My main research interests are in the areas of security and privacy, and
specifically in creating privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) for the
Internet.
I organize the CrySP
Speaker Series on Privacy.
Some of my current and planned research:
My publications
I am currently (well, will soon be) seeking interested graduate students
to start in
September 2025
or later. See the
CrySP website if you are interested. Note: Please do not
email me directly regarding applications. I get too many of these
messages, and I am unable to respond to them.
Current PhD Students
- Anaïs Huang
- Chelsea Komlo (with Douglas Stebila)
- Miti Mazmudar
- Vecna
Current MMath Students
Alumni
- Vecna, Troll Patrol: Detecting
Blocked Tor Bridges (M.Math, September 2024)
- Sajin Sasy, Privacy-Preserving
Communications from Privacy-Preserving Computations
(Ph.D., August 2024)
- Justin Tracey, Raising the Bar on Lowering
Barriers: Improving Ease of Research and Development Contributions to
Privacy Enhancing Technologies (Ph.D., August 2024)
- Kritika Iyer, Ghost
Recommendations: A Protocol for Efficiently Enhancing User Privacy
(M.Math, April 2024)
- Adithya Vadapalli (PDF, August 2023)
- Lindsey Tulloch, Lox: Protecting
the Social Graph in Bridge Distribution
(M.Math, May 2022)
- Stan Gurtler, PRSONA: Private
Reputation Supporting Ongoing Network Avatars
(M.Math, December 2021)
- Akshaya Mani (PDF, August 2021)
- Nik Unger, End-to-End
Encrypted Group Messaging with Insider Security
(Ph.D., August 2021)
- Steven Engler, Weaving a Faster
Tor: A Multi-Threaded Relay Architecture for Improved Throughput
(M.Math, August 2020)
- Chelsea Komlo, Walking Onions:
Scaling Distribution of Information Safely in Anonymity Networks
(M.Math, August 2020)
- Brittany Postnikoff, Robot Social
Engineering
(M.Math, July 2020)
- Miti Mazmudar, Mitigator:
Privacy policy compliance using Intel SGX
(M.Math, June 2019)
- Cecylia Bocovich (PDF, January 2019)
- Stefanie Roos (PDF, August 2018)
- Cecylia Bocovich, Recipes for
Resistance: A Censorship Circumvention Cookbook
(Ph.D., August 2018)
- Chris McKnight, StyleCounsel:
Seeing the (Random) Forest for the Trees in Adversarial Code Stylometry
(M.Math, January 2018)
- Justin Tracey, Building a Better
Tor Experimentation Platform from the Magic of Dynamic ELFs
(M.Math, October 2017)
- Tao Wang, Website
Fingerprinting: Attacks and Defenses (Ph.D., January 2016)
- Tariq Elahi, Towards more
Effective Censorship Resistance Systems (Ph.D., September 2015)
- Nik Unger, Deniable Key
Exchanges for Secure Messaging (M.Math, May 2015)
- Sukhbir Singh, Large-Scale
Emulation of Anonymous Communication Networks (M.Math, August 2014,
with David Taylor)
- Casey Devet, The Best of Both
Worlds: Combining Information-Theoretic and Computational Private
Information Retrieval for Communication Efficiency (M.Math, August
2014)
- Ryan Henry, Efficient
Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Applications (Ph.D., August 2014)
- Yizhou (Andy) Huang, Outsourced Private
Information Retrieval with Pricing and Access Control (M.Math, May
2013)
- Mashael AlSabah, Network Performance
Improvements for Low-Latency Anonymity Networks (Ph.D., April 2013)
- Hooman Mohajeri Moghaddam,
SkypeMorph:
Protocol Obfuscation for Censorship Resistance (M.Math, January
2013)
- Kevin Bauer (PDF, April 2012)
- Rob Smits,
BridgeSPA: A
Single Packet Authorization System for Tor Bridges (M.Math, January
2012)
- Femi Olumofin,
Practical
Private Information Retrieval (Ph.D., August 2011)
- Ryan Henry,
Nymbler:
Privacy-enhanced Protection from Abuses of Anonymity
(M.Math, January 2011)
- Can Tang,
An Improved
Algorithm for Tor Circuit Scheduling
(M.Math, July 2010)
- Aniket Kate,
Distributed Key
Generation and Its Applications
(Ph.D., June 2010)
- Joel Reardon,
Improving Tor
using a TCP-over-DTLS Tunnel
(M.Math, September 2008)
- Xiaoting Sun,
Anonymous,
Secure and Efficient Vehicular Communications
(M.Math, October 2007, with Pin-Han Ho)
