2025 Updates

to be honest, I added most of these at the end of the year thanks to parental leave, so this isn't a complete list

  •   Two of our submissions to Real World Cryptography were accepted---see you in Taipei! Another submission was rejected.
  •   Our paper Making Sense of Private Advertising: A Principled Approach to a Complex Ecosystem was accepted after shepherding and will appear atto PoPETS 2025!
  •   I'm serving as a Vice Chair for USENIX 2026 and on the program comitties for Eurocrypt 2026 and RWC 2026.
  •   Our paper Enforcing Demographic Coherence: A Harms Aware Framework for Reasoning about Private Data Release was accepted for a presentation at TPDP 2025!
  •   We had papers rejected from Oakland.
  •   A collaborative NSF proposal to SaTC EDU received excellect reviews, but sadly there was no money left to fund the project.
  •   We had a paper rejected from USENIX.
  •   Our paper Models Matter: Setting Accurate Privacy Expectations for Local and Central Differential Privacy has been accepted to PoPETS 2025!
  •   I returned from parental leavee and then failed to update this for a while, so I'm playing catch-up
  •   I'm on parental leave for the next couple of months.
  •   A collaborative NSF proposal was rejected.

2024 Updates

  •   Our paper on tracing paper was rejected from Eurocrypt.
  •   We have updated the eprint version of Dora! Turns out we significantly under-reported Dora's performance due to a bug.
  •   NSF has chosen to fund our proposal Collaborative Research: ReDDDoT Phase 2: Enabling Participatory Privacy Protections for AI Training Data! This will be collaborative work with Elissa M Redmiles (Georgetown University), dana boyd (Georgetown University), Sean Kross (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center), Rachel Cummings (Columbia Univerity), Priyanka Nanayakkara (Harvard University), Jayshree Sarathy (Northeastern University) and Hal Triedman (Wikimedia Foundation and Cornell Tech).
  •   Our paper "Dora: A Simple Approach to Zero-Knowledge for RAM Programs" (an updated version of our preprint) has also been accepted to ACM CCS 2024 -- after some minor revisions that significantly improved the results! An updated version will appear on eprint shortly.
  •   Our paper "Pulsar: Secure Steganography through Diffusion Models" has been accepted to ACM CCS 2024!
  •   Our paper on tracing paper was also rejected from Crypto, but review comments are making the paper much better!
  •   I'm going to be giving an invited talk at CFAIL, expanding on my recent RWC talk on deploying MPC!
  •   Our Talk "Analyzing Cryptography in Context: The Case Study of Apple's CSAM Scanning Proposal" accepted at CAW24 (Affilited with Eurocrypt 2024)!
  •   We submitted a comment on NIST SP 800-226: Guidelines for Evaluating Differential Privacy Guarantees. You can read our comment here.
  •   Two papers about which I was particularly excited, Dora and Pulsar, both rejected from USENIX Security
  •   Our paper on tracing the origin of viral messages is E2E systems was rejected from Eurocrypt 2024
  •   Our Talk "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly — Lessons from an MPC for Social Good Deployment" accepted at RWC24! Unfortunetly, our other talk submission was rejected.