Bio

Ph.D. Cornell University, 2021M.S. National Taiwan University, 2009B.S. National Taiwan University, 2007

 

Research interests include:

Cryptography, Algorithms, Theoretical Computer Science

 

 

I am an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at University of Virginia. Earlier, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University, advised by Professor Daniel Wichs. I got my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Cornell and then worked as a postdoc at CMU, both advised by Professor Elaine Shi. Prior to that, I got my B.S. and M.S. degrees from National Taiwan University, and then I was a software engineer.

Awards

  • Best Paper Award at STOC 2023

Research Interests

  • Cryptography
  • Algorithms
  • Theoretical Computer Science

Selected Publications

  • Doubly Efficient Private Information Retrieval and Fully Homomorphic RAM Computation from Ring LWE. STOC 2023 ABS Wei-Kai Lin, Ethan Mook, Daniel Wichs
  • OptORAMa: Optimal Oblivious RAM. Eurocrypt 2020, JACM 2022 ABS Gilad Asharov, Ilan Komargodski, Wei-Kai Lin, Kartik Nayak, Enoch Peserico, Elaine Shi
  • A Logarithmic Lower Bound for Oblivious RAM (for all parameters). Crypto 2021 ABS Ilan Komargodski, Wei-Kai Lin

Courses Taught

  • CS6222 Introduction to Cryptography Fall 2023