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 No Talk (Eurocrypt deadline)
Resources: https://eurocrypt.iacr.org/2026/
Good luck! :-)
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)
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

Schedule
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.