I am fortunate to have worked with an amazing set of students and postdocs.

Graduate Students

Current: [Ordered, roughly, by seniority]

• Champ Chairattana-Apirom (PhD, ongoing)
• Yao Ching Hsieh (PhD, ongoing)
• Katarina Cheng (PhD, ongoing)
• Annie Huang (PhD, ongoing)
• Xinye Yang (PhD, ongoing)

Former:

• Chenzhi Zhu (PhD, 2025) → NTT Research (postdoc)
• Hanjun Li (PhD, 2025) → CMU (postdoc)
• Sela Navot (MS, 2025, Honorable Mention Allen School Master's Thesis Award) → Artemis Software Works (software engineer)
• Marian Dietz (MS, 2024) → ETH Zurich (PhD student)
• Ji Luo (PhD, 2024) → BU/MIT (postdoc)
• Jan Buzek (BS, 2024) → Jane Street
• Ashrujit Ghoshal (PhD, 2023) → CMU (Postdoc) → IIT Madras (Assistant Professor)
• Xihu Zhang (MS 2022) → Oracle
• Pratik Soni (PhD, 2020) → CMU (Postdoc) → University of Utah (Assistant Professor)
• Binyi Chen (PhD, 2019) → Google → Espresso Systems (Chief Cryptographer) → Stanford (postdoc)
• Daniel Agun (PhD, 2019; joint with Tao Yang)
• Benjamin Terner (PhD, until 2020) → UC Irvine (PhD student)
• Wei Dai (MS, 2016) → UC San Diego (PhD student) → Bain Capital Crypto → 1kx
• John Retterer Moore (MS, 2015)

Postdocs

• Marshall Ball (2021; PhD Columbia University; CI Fellow, joint with Rachel Lin) → New York University (Assistant Professor)
• Joseph Jaeger (2019-2021; PhD UC San Diego) → Georgia Tech (Assistant Professor)
• Aishwarya Thiruvengadam (2017-18; PhD University of Maryland) → TU Darmstadt (Postdoc) → IIT Madras (Assistant Professor)
• Viet Tung Hoang (2015-16; PhD UC Davis) → Florida State University (Assistant Professor) → Florida State University (Associate Professor)

Interns/visiting students

• Jérôme Govinden (2024; PhD student at Tu Darmstadt)
• Jonas Janneck (2024; PhD student at Ruhr University Bochum)
• Akira Takahashi (2021-22; PhD student at Aarhus University)
• Riddhi Ghosal (2020-21; MS student at ISI; now PhD student at UCLA)
• Nirvan Tyagi (2020; PhD student at Cornell University)
• Yu Long Chen (2019-20; PhD student at KU Leuwen)
• Wei Dai (2019; PhD student at UCSD)
• Joseph Jaeger (2019; PhD student at UCSD)

Interested in Working with me? PhD: I am always interested in recruiting strong PhD students. Usually, I look for students that have at least one of the following characteristics: (1) strong theory background, and desire to apply it to cryptography; (2) background on provable security and/or the foundations of cryptography; (3) interests at the intersection of systems, security, and cryptography. I also have a genuine interest in co-advising students working at the intersection of cryptography and other areas. If you are already a UW student, and interested in collaborating, do reach out. If you are not at UW, apply to our graduate program. (Also, feel free to reach out to see whether our interests align, but understand that I am not always able to respond to all e-mails from prospective students.)

Interns: I typically only consider internships/visits if there is a strong technical match, and as long as: (1) we can work the funding situation out and (2) I have sufficient bandwidth.