Teaching and Mentoring

Teaching Experience

Yale University

• CPSC 467/567 Introduction to Cryptography

  • Teaching assistant: Fall 2025 with Charalampos Papamanthou; Spring 2025 and Spring 2024 with Katerina Sotiraki.
  • Guest lecturer: Spring 2025 with Katerina Sotiraki; topic: Lattice-Based Cryptography.

• CPSC 416/516 Lattices and Post-Quantum Cryptography

  • Guest lecturer: Fall 2024 with Katerina Sotiraki; topic: Fully Homomorphic Encryption.

• CPSC 417/517: Advanced Topics in Cryptography: Cryptography and Computation

  • Teaching assistant: Fall 2024 with Charalampos Papamanthou.

• CPSC 441/541 Zero-Knowledge Proof

  • Teaching assistant: Fall 2023 with Ben Fisch.

Columbia University

• COMS 4261 Introduction to Cryptography

  • Teaching assistant: Spring 2022 with Tal Malkin; Summer 2021 with Periklis Papakonstantinou.
  • 🏆 Received the Andrew P. Kosoresow Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching and Service in 2022 for this course.

• CSOR 4231 Analysis of Algorithms

  • Teaching assistant: Spring 2021 with Eleni Drinea.

Carnegie Mellon University

• CS 15-859 Special Topics in Theory: Cryptography
  • Guest lecturer: Spring 2025 with Aayush Jain; topic: Fully Homomorphic Encryption.

Research Mentoring

Bing Wu

• Oct. 2025–present
• Ph.D. student, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
• Mentoring research on FHE.

Haofei Liang

• Sept. 2024–present
• Ph.D. student, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
• Mentoring research on OMR, SSLE, and follow-up projects.
• Joint publications: [4], [6].

Yunhao Wang

• May 2022–present
• M.S. student, Columbia University; subsequently Ph.D. student, Yale University.
• Mentoring research on OMR and FHE.
• Joint publications: [3], [4], [8], [9], [13], [17], [19], [20], [22].

Nava Minsky-Primus and Michael Tu

• Dec. 2024–June 2025
• Undergraduate students, Yale University.
• Mentored research on distributed oblivious RAM (ORAM) and its application to private information retrieval (PIR).