Welcome to my website!

I am a fourth-year Computer Science PhD student in NYU Courant Cryptography & Security Group 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.

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Publications

• Boolean Permutation Checks
  Jonathan Bootle, Benedikt Bünz, Jessica Chen, Ron Rothblum

• It Takes Two: Proofs of Work for Fiat–Shamir
  Benedikt Bünz, Jessica Chen, Ziyi Guan

• Limber: Low Overhead SNARKs for Integers from Any PCS eprint
  Jessica Chen, Lucas Xia, Benedikt Bünz, Wilson Nguyen

• Almost Linear-Time Permutation Check eprint
  Benedikt Bünz, Jessica Chen, Zachary DeStefano, Binyi Chen
  TCC 2026 [slides]

• Merkle Mountain Ranges are optimal: Limits on witness update frequency for cryptographic accumulators eprint
  Joseph Bonneau, Jessica Chen, Miranda Christ, Ioanna Karantaidou
  Crypto 2025

• Proofs for Deep Thought: Accumulation for large memories and deterministic computations eprint
  Benedikt Bünz, Jessica Chen
  Asiacrypt 2024 [talk, slides]

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Non-CS Publications

• Small-molecule targeting of GPCR-independent noncanonical G-protein signaling in cancer PubMed
  Jingyi Zhao, Vincent DiGiacomo, Mariola Ferreras-Gutierrez, Shiva Dastjerdi, Alain Ibáñez de Opakua, Jong-Chan Park, Alex Luebbers, Qingyan Chen, Aaron Beeler, Francisco J Blanco, Mikel Garcia-Marcos
  PNAS 2023

• Effect of a Family Medicine Wellness Group Program on Long-Term Weight Loss Maintenance Outcomes PubMed
  Hawley Brown, David Randall Brandt, Jessica Chen, Kerri Hawkins, Kimberly R. Dong, Wayne Altman
  JABFM 2024