We work broadly in all areas in Cryptography: applied as well as foundational.
This includes topics such as zero-knowledge proofs, secure multi-party computation, blockchains and cryptocurrencies, game theory, verifiable computation, program obfuscation, computing on encrypted data, differential privacy, non-malleable cryptography, leakage-resilient cryptography, and anonymous communication. Please check the individual webpages for publications and projects
Aayush Jain, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, has received a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. The awards are the foundation's most prestigious for young faculty researchers. Jain will use the $600,000 award to study new and underexplored mathematical sources of hardness for cryptography as well as support graduate research in this area.
A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers featuring Riad Wahby , assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kunming Jiang , Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department, and Fraser Brown, assistant professor in the Software and Societal Systems Department, is overcoming the tradeoff between approaches that optimize for the CPU emulator, which is generally easier to program, versus the direct translation approach, which is potentially much less expensive in new research that is supported by Anaxi Labs.
