Recent Alumni

Nihal Vatandas, Ph.D. Graduate 2022

Thesis: "On the Cryptographic Deniability of the Signal Protocol"
Cryptographer at CryptoCode.

Kelsey Melissaris, Ph.D. Graduate 2022

Thesis: "Witness-Authenticated Key Exchange"
Postdoc at Chalmers Institute of Technology, Sweden

Tahereh (Sima) Jafarikhah, Ph.D. Graduate 2021

Thesis: "Efficient Protocols for Multi-Party Computation"
Faculty at University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

Marios Georgiou, Ph.D. Graduate 2020

Thesis: "Unclonable Secret Keys"
Research Engineer at Galois

Matteo Campanelli, Ph.D. Graduate 2018

Thesis: "Rationality and Efficient Verifiable Computation"
Currently working at Offchain Labs as a Cryptography Researcher. 

Pavel Rytir, Post-doc 2014-2016

Researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Center of the Czech Technical University

Milinda Perera, Ph.D. Graduate 2015

Thesis: "Theory and applications of outsider anonymity in broadcast encryption"
Currently working at Google. 

Kevin Sekniqi, Former Undergraduate Student 2015

Co-Founder of Ava Labs

Valerio Pastro, Post-doc 2013-2014

Researcher at Square

Last Updated: 01/16/2026 13:44