Chenzhi Zhu

I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the cryptography group in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. I am advised by Stefano Tessaro.

Prior to this, I received my bachelor’s degree from Yao Class at Tsinghua University. I did an internship at Microsoft Research during the summer of 2024, working with Esha Ghosh and Melissa Chase. I also did an internship at NTT CIS lab during the summer of 2023, working with Ilan Komargodski. I was visiting CMU during 2019, working under the supervision of Vipul Goyal on cryptography.

I have a broad interest in cryptography and related fields of theoretical computer science. I love solving concrete, discrete problems. My current focus is on designing concretely efficient privacy preserving and/or threshold cryptographic protocols, such as blind signatures, anonymous credentials and threshold signatures.

Publications and Preprints

  2. On the (Im)possibility of Game-Theoretically Fair Leader Election Protocols
    Ohad Klein, Ilan Komargodski, and Chenzhi Zhu
    TCC 2024 (to appear)
  8. Revisiting BBS Signatures
    Stefano Tessaro, and Chenzhi Zhu
    EUROCRYPT 2023
  13. Learning in situ: a randomized experiment in video streaming
    Francis Y. Yan, Hudson Ayers,  Chenzhi Zhu, Sadjad Fouladi, James Hong, Keyi Zhang, Philip Alexander Levis, and Keith Winstein
    NSDI 2020