About Me
I am an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Virginia Commonwealth University specializing in Cryptography, Secure Multi-Party Computation, and Blockchain Technologies.
From 2010-2013, I was a postdoc at the University of Maryland, under the direction of Jonathan Katz. In 2010, I received my PhD at the University of Connecticut with Aggelos Kiayias as advisor.
Research
- Secure Multi-Party Computation; Zero-Knowledge Proofs
- Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technologies
- Protocol Composability; Indifferentiability
- Extreme Cryptography: Security against Leakage, Tampering, Subversion, Coercion, and Quantum Attacks
- Functional Encryption and Obfuscation
- Cryptography for AI
Teaching
- Cryptocurrency and Blockchain (CMSC 615)
Spring 2025--2017
- Introduction to Cryptography (CMSC 415)
Current: Fall 2025 - Mondays/Wednesdays, 12:30-1:45 PM, Engineering West Hall, Room 301
Fall 2024--2016; Spring 2016, 2015
- Introduction to Algorithms (CMSC 401)
Spring 2016
- Applied Cryptography (CMSC 620/ CISS 624)
Fall 2015, 2014, 2013
Recent Service
Cryptography, Cybersecurity and Blockchain conferences:
- FC 2026 - Financial Cryptography and Data Security
- PKC 2026 - International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public Key Cryptography
- ASIACRYPT2025
- ACM CCS 2025 (Blockchain track)
- AFT 2025 - ACM Advances in Financial Technologies
- ICDCS 2025 (Blockchains/Databases track) - IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Journal:
- ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security