Biography

Hi! My Chinese name is 陈杉. I am a tenure-track associate professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen 深圳, China. Before joining SUSTech in 2022, I earned my Ph.D. degree from Georgia Tech under the supervision of Alexandra (Sasha) Boldyreva and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Cryptoplexity group led by Marc Fischlin. I started my cryptography research during my master’s studies, where I was fortunate to be advised by John Steinberger.

My research interests include cryptography and information security, with a current focus on real-world cryptography, as well as theoretical cryptography that shows strong potential for real-world applications. I am most passionate about analyzing deployed or soon-to-be-deployed security protocols and cryptographic primitives to develop provably secure and practically efficient cryptographic solutions.

I am seeking self-motivated students and postdocs for our Applied Cryptography Group. If you are truly passionate about cryptography research, please feel free to contact me.
If your primary goal is simply to earn a graduate degree, please consider other fields — cryptography is demanding and requires genuine dedication.

* If you are curious about my advising style, this article about the Ph.D. experience may give you an idea, as I aim for a similar approach; a master’s experience is a simplified version of it, roughly aligning with the first phase of the Ph.D. journey.

Interests
  • Cryptography 密码学
  • Information Security 信息安全
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science, 2020

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  • MEng in Computer Science and Technology

    Tsinghua University

  • BSc in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics

    Beijing Normal University

Recent Publications

* When all authors are theoretical cryptographers, their names are typically listed in alphabetical order by last name, following international convention.

* Rankings of good publication venues are always controversial, but the CORE rankings (for conferences and journals) are currently well recognized by international researchers.

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(2025). Privacy and Security of FIDO2 Revisited. In Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2025.

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(2025). Committing Authenticated Encryption: Generic Transforms with Hash Functions. In EUROCRYPT 2025.

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(2024). Integrating Causality in Messaging Channels. In EUROCRYPT 2024.

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(2021). Provable Security Analysis of FIDO2. In CRYPTO 2021.

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(2021). Secure Communication Channel Establishment: TLS 1.3 (over TCP Fast Open) versus QUIC. In Journal of Cryptology 2021.

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Services

Program committees: ACNS 2025, PKC 2023

Students

Doctoral students:

  • Kaige Pan (Sep 2023 - now)

Master students:

  • Yijun Zeng (Sep 2024 - now)
  • Yuchen Wang (Sep 2024 - now)
  • Haoyang Li (Sep 2023 - now)

Visiting students:

Courses

CS216 Algorithm Design and Analysis (H) (Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023)

CS201 Discrete Mathematics (Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022)

Contact

  • chens3 at sustech.edu.cn
  • 1088 Xueyuan Ave, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055
  • Enter South Tower of CoE Building and take the elevator to Office 614 on Floor 6

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