CV
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Basics
| Name | Jiaxin Guan |
| Pronouns | He / Him |
| jiaxin@guan.io | |
| Phone | (650) 796-1302 |
| Url | https://www.guan.io |
Interests
| Cryptography | |
| Information-Theoretic Cryptography | |
| Space-Bounded Cryptography | |
| Post-Quantum Cryptography | |
| Functional Encryption |
| Theoretical Computer Science | |
| Coding Theory | |
| Time-Space Lower Bounds | |
| Complexity | |
| Meta-Complexity |
Education
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2017.09 - 2023.07 Princeton, USA
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2017.09 - 2019.09 Princeton, USA
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2016.01 - 2017.06 Stanford, USA
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2013.09 - 2017.06 Stanford, USA
Publications
- Please refer to the complete list on the Publications page.
Talks
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Space Jammed: Cryptography against Space-Bounded Adversaries
- National University of Singapore Mar 2025
- New Jersey Institute of Technology Mar 2025
- Queens College Q4C Colloquium Dec 2024
- National University of Singapore
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On Sequential Functions and Fine-Grained Cryptography
- CRYPTO 2024 Conference Talk Aug 2024
- CRYPTO 2024 Conference Talk
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Multi-Instance Randomness Extraction and Security against Bounded-Storage Mass Surveillance
- ITC 2024 Highlights Track Aug 2024
- SJTU John Hopcroft Center Lecture Series Jan 2024
- NYU Crypto Reading Group Dec 2023
- TCC 2023 Conference Talk Dec 2023
- ITC 2024 Highlights Track
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A Lower Bound on the Length of Signatures based on Group Actions and Generic Isogenies
- EUROCRYPT 2023 Conference Talk Apr 2023
- CMU CyLab Crypto Seminar Apr 2023
- Texas Crypto Day Apr 2023
- EUROCRYPT 2023 Conference Talk
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Incompressible Cryptography
- NTT Research July 2022
- EUROCRYPT 2022 Conference Talk May 2022
- UCLA Crypto Reading Group Apr 2022
- CMU CyLab Crypto Seminar Apr 2022
- Stanford Security Seminar Mar 2022
- NTT Research
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Disappearing Cryptography and Incompressible Cryptography
- NYU Crypto Reading Group Jan 2022
- TCC 2021 In-Person Workshop Talk Nov 2021
- NYU Crypto Reading Group
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Disappearing Cryptography in the Bounded Storage Model
- TCC 2021 Conference Talk Nov 2021
- TCC 2021 Conference Talk
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Iterated Inhomogeneous Polynomials
- CFail 2021, a CRYPTO 2021 Affiliated Event Aug 2021
- CFail 2021, a CRYPTO 2021 Affiliated Event
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Simple Schemes in the Bounded Storage Model
- EUROCRYPT 2019 Conference Talk May 2019
- Princeton General Exam May 2019
- EUROCRYPT 2019 Conference Talk
Professional Activities
| Program Committees | |
| CRYPTO '25 | |
| IACR CiC '25 |
| Conference Reviews | |
| CRYPTO '18 | |
| EUROCRYPT '22 '23 | |
| TCC '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 | |
| ASIACRYPT '19 '20 '25 | |
| STOC '22 | |
| ITCS '21 '25 | |
| CCC '24 | |
| RANDOM '25 |
Teaching Experience
- Please refer to the complete list on the Teaching page.
Work
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2025.06 - Present Applied Cryptographer
Zellic
Audit and research cutting-edge cryptographic protocols and blockchain systems.
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2023.09 - 2025.06 Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Taught the undergraduate algorithms course and conducted research on various areas of cryptography.
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2019.10 - 2021.05 Research Intern
NTT Research Inc.
Conducted research on Incompressible Cryptography and other various topics on cryptography.
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2020.05 - 2020.08 Summer Research Intern
Fujitsu Laboratories of America Inc.
Conducted research on Memory Hard Functions.
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2016.07 - 2016.09 Software Engineering Intern
Keybase Inc.
Implemented a keyword search scheme for encrypted data on Keybase File System.
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2015.06 - 2015.09 Software Engineering Intern
Google Inc.
Worked on the Technical Infrastructure team to provide user data protection by implementing tools that give health analysis feedbacks for security policies.
Languages
| Mandarin | |
| Native speaker |
| English | |
| Fluent |
| Cantonese | |
| Fluent |
| German | |
| Intermediate |
| Sanskrit | |
| Intermediate |