News
News, awards, presentations, and research updates.
| Aug 14, 2026 | I’m presenting our paper on minimal cryptographic properties needed to build SNARKs at Crypto! |
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| Aug 12, 2026 | Our paper on End-to-End Encrypted Documents won the 2026 Internet Defense Prize and is a Distinguished Paper runner-up at USENIX Security 2026! |
| Jul 20, 2026 | I’m going to PETS 🇨🇦 to talk about my work in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross, and to talk about privacy harms of digital identity frameworks at the policy-relevant research workshop! |
| Jul 09, 2026 | I’m talking about the EU digital identity framework and the proposed German implementing law in front of the digital commission of the German Bundestag’s 🇩🇪 Linksfraktion (check out articles in taz, heise online and Tagesspiegel). |
| Jun 11, 2026 | Just started my summer internship at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA 🇺🇸, working on encrypted spaces! |
| May 07, 2026 | I’m giving a talk on the privacy harms of digital identity frameworks at the consumer protection workshop co-located with S&P in San Francisco end of May 🇺🇸! |
| May 06, 2026 | I’ll be at ZKProof (giving a talk on lattice-based arguments) and the Cryptographic Applications Workshop (giving a talk about privacy harms of the European digital identity framework and sitting on a panel on digital identities) in Rome this weekend 🇮🇹! |
| May 05, 2026 | Our paper “On the Fiat–Shamir Security of Succinct Arguments from Functional Commitments” is accepted at CRYPTO’26 🌴! |
| Apr 05, 2026 | I’m interning at Microsoft Research in Redmond this summer 🇺🇸! |
| Mar 01, 2026 | I’ll be at the HACS and FHE.org workshops next week, and I’m giving a talk on end-to-end encrypted collaborative documents for investigative journalists at Real World Crypto 🇹🇼! |
| Jan 15, 2026 | Our paper “End-to-End-Encrypted Collaborative Documents” is accepted at USENIX Security’26! |
| Dec 08, 2025 | I’m going to the EU Parliament 🇪🇺 for a roundtable event on age verification in the digital single market. |
| Nov 01, 2025 | Our paper “A Privacy-Preserving Humanitarian Aid Distribution System with Statistics” in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross is accepted at PETS’26 🇨🇦! |
| Oct 07, 2025 | I was a co-author on two position papers accepted to the IAB/W3C workshop on age-based restriction on content access: “Private and Decentralized Age Verification Architecture” with folks at Brave, and “Limitations and Pitfalls of Integrating PETs in Online Age Verification” with EPFL+CISPA+MPI-SP folks. |
| Sep 01, 2025 | My student Mohamed Badr Taddist is presenting our privacy analysis of the C2PA ecosystem for journalists and publishers at two industry conferences. |
| Jul 14, 2025 | I’m attending the Proofs workshop at the Simons Institute this week! |
| Jul 11, 2025 | We just wrapped up the summer school on lattice crypto that I’m co-organising with Shannon Veitch and Jonathan Bootle. Slides and videos coming soon! |
| Jun 02, 2025 | I’m starting a summer internship at Brave, working with Sofía Celi on PIR things! |
| Jun 01, 2025 | I’m giving a talk about our end-to-end encrypted collaborative document system for investigative journalists at the European Broadcasting Union’s Media Cybersecurity Conference. |
| Feb 24, 2025 | I’ll be giving a talk on designing privacy-preserving system for the International Committee of the Red Cross at RWC’25 🇧🇬 (I’ll also give a talk on generalized IOPs at ZKProof)! |
| Dec 15, 2024 | I’m co-organizing a summer school on lattice-based cryptography at EPFL next summer! |
| Aug 26, 2024 | Lova got accepted at Asiacrypt’24! |
| Aug 01, 2024 | I’m giving a talk about our lattice folding scheme Lova at KU Leuven 🇧🇪, and then I’ll be visiting King’s college 🇬🇧 for a week (with a pit stop at Royal Holloway)! |
| May 24, 2024 | Veritas got accepted at CCS’24! |
| May 09, 2024 | Arc got accepted at USENIX Sec’24! |
| Apr 12, 2024 | I’m giving a talk at Real World Crypto 🇨🇦 this year! I’ll also be at HACS and FHE.org in Toronto, and visiting UWaterloo. |
| Nov 09, 2023 | I graduated from ETH Zürich with a Master’s in Cyber Security! I’m not leaving ETH yet though, I’m spending the next few months doing research with Anwar Hithnawi’s PPS Lab. |
| Sep 01, 2023 | I’m starting my Ph.D. at EPFL! |
| Aug 30, 2023 | I’m presenting a poster at the Homomorphic Encryption Standards Meeting in Geneva 🇨🇭 and at the Intel Crypto Frontiers Research Center in Portland 🇺🇸. |
| Jul 06, 2023 | I’ll be at the EPFL Summer Research Institute, and at PETS and HotPETS in Lausanne next week |
| May 10, 2023 | I’m giving a talk at the Stanford security seminar next Wednesday, and I’ll be presenting a poster at S&P 🇺🇸! |
| Apr 25, 2023 | I’ll be attending the Lattices meet Hashes workshop at the Bernoulli Center at EPFL 🇨🇭 |
| Apr 15, 2023 | I’ll be starting a Ph.D. at EPFL 🇨🇭 in September 2023! |
| Mar 11, 2023 | I’m going on a little academic world tour! I’ll be giving a guest lecture in Daniele Micciancio’s FHE course at UC San Diego and a talk at the Berkeley security seminar 🇺🇸, going to the Homomorphic Encryption Standards meeting in Seoul 🇰🇷, before giving a talk at to the FHE.org conference and attending Real World Crypto and HACS in Tokyo 🇯🇵. |
| Oct 12, 2022 | I’m extending my stay at the Lab for Data Security at EPFL as a research assistant, finishing our implementation of Homomorphic Message Authentication Codes to protect Fully Homomorphic Encryption applications. |
| May 11, 2022 | I’m starting a Summer@EPFL research stay with the Lab for Data Security at EPFL in a few days! |
| Dec 28, 2018 | I’m going to the University of Washington 🇺🇸 for an exchange quarter! |