Chenzhi Zhu

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the CIS Lab at NTT Research, hosted by Elette Boyle. I received my Ph.D. in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where I was fortunate to be advised by Stefano Tessaro.

Prior to this, I received my bachelor’s degree from Yao Class at Tsinghua University. I did an internship at Microsoft Research during the summer of 2024, working with Esha Ghosh and Melissa Chase. I also did an internship at NTT CIS lab during the summer of 2023, working with Ilan Komargodski. I was visiting CMU during 2019, working under the supervision of Vipul Goyal on cryptography.

I have a broad interest in cryptography and related fields of theoretical computer science. I love solving concrete, discrete problems. My current focus is on designing concretely efficient privacy preserving and/or threshold cryptographic protocols, such as blind signatures, anonymous credentials and threshold signatures.