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. 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.
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
* 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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CS201 Discrete Mathematics (Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024)
CS216 Algorithm Design and Analysis (H) (Spring 2023, Spring 2024)