Welcome to my website!

I am a third-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

• SNARKs for Integers with Low Overhead
  Jessica Chen, Lucas Xia, Benedikt Bünz, Wilson Nguyen

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