Published papers such as 'Cinnamon: A Framework for Scale-out Encrypted AI' (to appear, ASPLOS 2025), 'No Free Lunch in LLM Watermarking: Trade-offs in Watermarking Design Choices' (NeuRIPS 2024), 'BOLT: Privacy-Preserving, Accurate and Efficient Inference for Transformers' (IEEE S&P 2024), etc.; Research supported by the National Science Foundation, AWS, Cisco, CMU CyLab, Google, and Samsung.
Research Experience
Co-founder and organizer for DARE, a diversity-focused program for matching undergraduates to research opportunities; Currently an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on secure outsourced computation, secure collaborative computation, etc.
Education
Ph.D. from UC Berkeley RISE Lab, advised by Raluca Ada Popa and Ion Stoica; Bachelor and M.Eng. degrees from MIT, advised by Barbara Liskov.
Background
Research Interests: System security and applied cryptography; Professional Field: Building secure systems, developing practical cryptographic primitives and protocols, designing systems for democratizing and accelerating cryptography; Bio: Assistant Professor in CMU's Computer Science Department, with a courtesy appointment in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, and is also a core faculty in CyLab.
Miscellany
Co-founder of Opaque Systems; Looking for highly motivated students interested in applied cryptography and system security to join her team.