Past semesters

Fall 2025

We met every Wednesday 3-4 PM at DSAI 1004.

Schedule
DateTopic / TitlePresenter
Sep 10th Traceable Secret Sharing and Multi-dealer secret sharing
Resources: [BPR24] [EBGHJ24]
Xiuyu Ye
Sep 17th Securing Data Integrity in Modern Overlay Networks: an Integrated Perspective from Theory to Practice
Resources: [LJGK25] [LJSK24] [LBNK24]
Zhongtang Luo
Sep 24th Game-Theoretically Fair Distributed Sampling
Resources: [TWS24]
Hamidreza Amini Khorasgani
Oct 1st (Research Talk) From Systems to Cryptography: ATop-Down Approach to Building Privacy-Preserving Systems
1:30-2:30, LWSN 3102
Christina Garman
Oct 2nd (Research Talk) Re-thinking Secure (Distributed) Cryptosystems: Breaking Away FromTradition For Real World Use
1:30-2:30, LWSN 3102
Aniket Kate
Oct 8th (Cancelled) Reverse Multiplication Friendly Embedding (RMFE)
Resources: [CCXY18], [BMN18], [CG22]
Jihun Hwang (Jimmy)
Oct 15th Strong Secret Sharing with Snitching
Resources: [BDFLM25]
Colten Brunner
Oct 22nd Reverse Multiplication Friendly Embedding (RMFE)
Resources: [CCXY18], [BMN18], [CG22]
Jihun Hwang (Jimmy)
Oct 29th (First year Research seminar) Provable Trustworthy Machine Learning via Differential Trust
3:30-4:30, LWSN 1142
Hanshen Xiao
Nov 5th (CS-Colloquium) Private Information Retrieval in the Shuffle Model
2:00-3:00, LWSN 3102
Yiping Ma
Nov 12th (Cancelled) Oblivious Transfer Combiner
Resources: [HKNRR05]
Albert Yu
Nov 19th The Impact of Reversibility on Parallel Pebbling
Resources: [BHL25]
Blake Holman
Dec 3rd Oblivious Transfer Combiner
Resources: [HKNRR05]
Albert Yu
Dec 10th PAC Privacy
Resources: [SXD25]
Justin He

This is a non-exhaustive list

SemesterCourse LinkInstructor
Fall 2026Blockchain SeminarMahimna Kelkar
Spring 2026Trustworthy Machine LearningHanshen Xiao
Fall 2025PseudorandomnessWei Zhan
Spring 2025Advanced Cryptology (With emphasis on MPC primitives)Aarushi Goel
Fall 2024Zero-Knowledge Proof SeminarAarushi Goel
Spring 2023Advanced Cryptology (With a focus on MHF, (Q)ROM etc.)Jeremiah Blocki
Spring 2021Practical and Applied CryptographyChristina Garman

Other Resources

To be updated.