About Me
I’m an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. My research is in computer security ā specifically, removing trust from computer systems through decentralization, verifiability, or accountability. I study such real-world systems and build the cryptographic tools that make them possible.
Several projects I worked on, notably zkTLS (DECO (CCS'20), Town Crier (CCS'16)), confidential smart contracts Ekiden (EuroS&P'19), trustless bridges zkBridge (CCS'22), and efficient DC nets (ZIPNet (PETS'25)), have been deployed in industry.
My research has been supported by the NSF, the Ethereum Foundation, Flashbots, Mysten Labs, the Yale Roberts Innovation Award, and IBM. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University, advised by Prof. Ari Juels, and my B.S. from Tsinghua University.
- Cryptographic protocols for decentralization, verifiability, or accountability
- Economic security with rational players
- Decentralized finance, identity, and AI applications
Updates
| š | DECO, the first zkTLS protocol we devised in 2019, is now in Chainlink’s Platform Privacy Suite. |
| 04/26 | Two papers accepted to present at Designing DeFi (DĀ²). |
| 04/26 | Geographical Centralization Resilience in Ethereum's Block-Building Paradigms (SIGMETRICS'26) is accepted to ACM SIGMETRICS'26! |
| 03/26 | VAR (ePrint 2025/2330) is presented at Northeastern Security Day (NESD). |
| 02/26 | Cirrus: Performant and Accountable Distributed SNARK (NDSS'26) is presented at NDSS'26! |
| 08/25 | Received a collaborative NSF award to work on TEE powered Confidential Genome Imputation and Analytics. |
| 08/25 | Recent talks: IC3 Blockchain Camp, NoConsensus@SBC25, and ETH NYC'25. |
| 04/25 | New paper Insecurity Through Obscurity: Veiled Vulnerabilities in Closed-Source Contracts is online. Also check out the nice highlight by EigenPhi. |