Welcome to my website!

I am a second-year Computer Science PhD student at NYU Courant advised by Benedikt Bünz and Joseph Bonneau. The focus of my research is on cryptography, mostly proof systems and accumulation.

Before starting my PhD, I did a B.A./M.S. dual degree program in CS at Boston University, where I was lucky to learn cryptography from Leo Reyzin and worked as a TA for Ran Canetti’s cryptography course.

Publications

Proofs for Deep Thought: Accumulation for large memories and deterministic computations eprint
Benedikt Bünz, Jessica Chen
Asiacrypt 2024 [talk, slides]
Merkle Mountain Ranges are optimal: Limits on witness update frequency for cryptographic accumulators (in progress)
Joseph Bonneau, Jessica Chen, Miranda Christ, Ioanna Karantaidou

Blogs

Below are entries I sometimes write to help myself understand papers. Not sure how much sense they will make to someone else.