Cryptography Research Group

The Cryptography Group in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering carries out research on a wide range of topics in the foundations and applications of cryptography. These include public-key and symmetric cryptography, obfuscation, attribute-based and functional encryption, secure multi-party computation, zero-knowledge proofs, anonymous credentials, post-quantum and quantum cryptography, information-theoretic cryptography, and more.

We meet weekly for a reading group/seminar. Also subscribe to seattle-crypto for annoucements of cryptography-related events in the Seattle area.

Check out our cryptography classes.

Our research has been supported by NSF, DARPA, the Simons Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, CISCO, JP Morgan, Amazon, the Stellar Foundation, and Microsoft.

Related groups: [UW Theory] [UW Security & Privacy] [Quantum @ Allen School] [MSR Cryptography, Security, and Privacy] [UW Blockchain Lab]

Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington

Faculty

Graduate Students

Former Members

  • Viet Tung Hoang

    Postdoc 2015-16 → Florida State University (Assistant Associate Professor)

  • Christian Matt

    Postdoc 2017-18 → Concordium (Senior Researcher)

  • Aishwarya Thiruvengadam

    Postdoc 2017-18 → TU Darmstadt (Postdoc) → IIT Madras (Assistant Professor)

  • Marshall Ball

    Postdoc 2020-21 (CI Fellow) → New York University (Assistant Professor)

  • Joseph Jaeger

    Postdoc 2019-21 → Georgia Institute of Technology (Assistant Professor)

  • Tianren Liu

    Postdoc 2019-21 → Peking University (Assistant Professor)

  • Min Jae Song

    Postdoc 2023-25 → University of Chicago (Postdoc)