Can Liu, MS en route to the PhD (coadvised with David Heath at UIUC)
Siqi Li, Undergraduate
Alumni
Fall 2025 - Fall 2026, MS., Joy Wan (MS. student at UIUC)
Publication: Weakly Private Distributed Multi-User Secret Sharing ( IEEE Transactions on Information Theory)
Fall 2024 - Fall 2025, MS., Hengyu Liu (Ph.D. Student at UIUC)
Publication:
Improved Garbled RAM via Garbled Merge (CCS 2026); Towards Practical Zero‑Knowledge Proof for PSPACE (IEEE S&P 2026)
Summer 2025, Visiting student, Zhaoxiang Liu (Ph.D. Student at Kansas State University)
Publication: BlindMarket: Enabling Verifiable, Confidential, and Traceable IP Core Distribution in Zero-Trust Settings (HOST 2026)
Summer 2025, Visiting student, Can Liu (Undergraduate at Tsinghua University)
Publication: Improved Garbled RAM via Garbled Merge (CCS 2026)
Summer 2025, Visiting student, Sijia Xie (Undergraduate at Tsinghua University)
Former Mentees
Fall 2023 - Fall 2024, Haotian Chu, (Ph.D students at Northwestern University)
Fall 2023, John C. Kolesar, Daniel Luick (Ph.D students at Yale University)
Publication: ZKSMT: A VM for Proving SMT Theorems in Zero Knowledge (USENIX Security 2024)
Fall 2022, Qiuyue Qin, Huisan Xu (Masters at Xiamen University)
Publication: Toward Privacy-Preserving Interdomain Configuration Verification via Multi-Party Computation (APNET 2023)
2019-2021, Yichao Cheng (Undergraduate at Yale University)
Publication: Looking for the Maximum Independent Set: A New Perspective on the Stable Path Problem (INFOCOM 2021)
Thesis (served as de facto advsor): Methods for Privacy-Preserving Model Checking in LTL
Summer 2020, Michael Chen (Undergraduate at Yale University)