Biography

My Chinese name is 陈杉. I am currently a tenure-track associate professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China. Before joining SUSTech, I obtained my Ph.D. degree from Georgia Tech under the supervision of Alexandra (Sasha) Boldyreva and then did a postdoc in the Cryptoplexity group led by Marc Fischlin at Technische Universität Darmstadt. I started my cryptography research during my master’s studies, where I was honored 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 developing provably secure and practically efficient cryptographic solutions.

I am seeking self-motivated students and postdocs for our Applied Cryptography Group. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in working with me.

* If you are interested in pursuing a graduate degree with me and wonder what you would expect from that, this article about the Ph.D. experience might be very helpful and you can regard the master’s experience as a simplified version of that.

Interests
  • Cryptography
  • Information Security
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 cryptographers and especially when international researchers are involved, authors are typically listed alphabetically following international convention.

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

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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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(2019). Secure Communication Channel Establishment: TLS 1.3 (over TCP Fast Open) vs. QUIC. In ESORICS 2019.

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(2018). Minimizing the Two-Round Even–Mansour Cipher. In Journal of Cryptology 2018.

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Services

Program committees: ACNS 2025, PKC 2023

Students

Doctoral students:

  • Kaige Pan (2023 - now)

Master students:

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

Visiting students:

Courses

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

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

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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