I hope to give back to the community as an IACR director, with the overaching goal of improving our professional and personal well-being —especially that of students and junior reseachers— through (i) better and healthier conference reviewing, (ii) stronger bi-directional engagement with industry, and (iii) building a more cohesive community.
Cryptography and the IACR, along with coffee, has been a big part of my professional life in the US (Berkeley, CUNY, Algorand, NTT Research), Europe (CNRS/ENS, RUB), and Asia (Tsinghua). I would like to give back to the community as an IACR director, with the overaching goal of improving our professional and personal well-being —especially that of PhD students and junior reseachers— through
Better and healthier conference reviewing: guidance for first-time PC chairs and PC members; pathway to PCs for junior researchers; incentivizing good reviews, active PC/reviewer discussion; engaging senior researchers; looking at and reviewing recent initiatives like discussion leads and area chairs, as well as investigating new ones like 2-tier PCs; top 10% award for flagship conferences.
Stronger bi-directional engagement with industry: making sure our research is informed by real-world and industry needs and vice versa to ensure continuing impact; ensuring IACR community is perceived as an expert opinion on all things cryptography; career opportunities for PhD students and junior researchers;
Building a more cohesive community: cultivating appreciation for research done across IACR communities; facilitating student internships, visits, exchanges and conference social activities across institutions and continents.
Contributor to TLS 1.3 standard and co-author on IETF draft on BLS signatures
Founding co-organizer of New York Crypto Day and Paris Crypto Day. Invited speakers include: Karthik Bhargavan, Anne Canteaut, Sarah Meiklejohn, Ingrid Verbauwhede, Kenny Paterson, Pascal Paillier.
Collaborated with PhD students across multiple institutions and continents: ENS, IMDEA, RHUL, Leuven, RUB; Columbia, MIT, U Chicago, Northeastern, BU, NYU; Weizmann, BGU; SNU, NTU.
Former office-mate to the incumbent IACR president
Lived and studied/worked in Boston, Beijing, Berkeley, Bochum, etc.