Saba Eskandarian Office: Gates Building, Room 494 Zoom Email: saba@cs.stanford.edu I am a PhD student in the Applied Cryptography Group at Stanford University. My advisor is Dan Boneh. I completed my bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science with an undergraduate minor in Applied Mathematics at the University of Virginia, advised by Mohammad Mahmoody.

Photo by Maxwell Cornwell

Papers

• Clarion: Anonymous Communication from Multiparty Shuffling Protocols
  Saba Eskandarian, Dan Boneh
  In submission
• Fast Privacy-Preserving Punch Cards
  Saba Eskandarian
  PETS 2021 (code)
• Express: Lowering the Cost of Metadata-hiding Communication with Cryptographic Privacy
  Saba Eskandarian, Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, Matei Zaharia, Dan Boneh
  Usenix Security 2021 (code)
• Improving Speed and Security in Updatable Encryption Schemes
  Dan Boneh, Saba Eskandarian, Sam Kim, Maurice Shih
  Asiacrypt 2020 (code)
• Single Secret Leader Election
  Dan Boneh, Saba Eskandarian, Lucjan Hanzlik, Nicola Greco
  ACM AFT 2020
• Privacy-Preserving Payment Splitting
  Saba Eskandarian, Mihai Christodorescu, Payman Mohassel
  PETS 2020
• ObliDB: Oblivious Query Processing for Secure Databases
  Saba Eskandarian, Matei Zaharia
  VLDB 2020 (code)
• Fidelius: Protecting User Secrets from Compromised Browsers
  Saba Eskandarian, Jonathan Cogan, Sawyer Birnbaum, Peh Chang Wei Brandon, Dillon Franke, Forest Fraser, Gaspar Garcia, Eric Gong, Hung Nguyen, Taresh Sethi, Vishal Subbiah, Michael Backes, Giancarlo Pellegrino, Dan Boneh
  IEEE S&P 2019 (code, press)
• Post-Quantum EPID Signatures from Symmetric Primitives
  Dan Boneh, Saba Eskandarian, Ben Fisch
  CT-RSA 2019
• Certificate Transparency with Privacy
  Saba Eskandarian, Eran Messeri, Joseph Bonneau, Dan Boneh
  PETS 2017

Teaching

Instructor
Spring 2021:	CS355, Topics in Cryptography (Stanford): Taught with Alex Ozdemir and Riad Wahby
Spring 2020:	CS355, Topics in Cryptography (Stanford): Taught with Dima Kogan and Florian Tramer
TA
Fall 2019:	CS356, Topics in Computer and Network Security (Stanford):
Winter 2018:	CS255, Introduction to Cryptography (Stanford) Remote Student Teaching Excellence Award
Fall 2017:	CS154, Introduction to Automata Theory and Complexity (Stanford): Department award for top 5% of CAs
Spring 2016:	CS3102, Theory of Computation; CS4102, Algorithms (UVA):
Spring 2015:	CS3102/6160, Theory of Computation (UVA):
2011-2012:	Introduction to Computer Science (Langley High School):

Talks

• Fast Privacy-Preserving Punch Cards
  • Stanford Security Lunch - June 2020 (slides)
• Improving Speed and Security in Updatable Encryption Schemes
  • Asiacrypt - December 2020 (video)
  • UC Berkeley Crypto Seminar - November 2020
  • UC Berkeley RISE Security Group - July 2020 (slides)
  • Stanford Security Lunch - March 2020
• Single Secret Leader Election
  • ACM AFT - October 2020 (video)
  • Facebook - January 2020 (slides)
  • Stanford Security Lunch - January 2020
• Express: Lowering the Cost of Metadata-hiding Communication with Cryptographic Privacy
  • Cornell Security Seminar - March 2021
  • Duke University - September 2020 (slides)
  • VMWare Moosecon - November 2019
• Some Recent SNARKs
  • Stanford CS Qualifying Exam - July 2019 (slides)
• Private Communication without Synchronization
  • University of Maryland - June 2019 (slides)
  • Bay Area Crypto Day - May 2019
  • Stanford Security Lunch - April 2019
  • Stanford Computer Forum Security Workshop - April 2019 (video)
• Fidelius: Protecting User Secrets from Compromised Browsers
  • IEEE S&P - May 2019 (slides, video, short video)
  • Stanford Security Lunch - May 2019
  • Brave Software - September 2018
• Post-Quantum EPID Signatures from Symmetric Primitives
  • CT-RSA - March 2019 (slides)
• Privacy-Preserving Payment Splitting
  • PETS - July 2020 (slides, video)
  • Stanford Security Lunch - October 2018
  • Visa Research - August 2018
• ObliDB: Oblivious Query Processing for Secure Databases
  • VLDB - September 2020 (slides, video)
  • Visa Research - June 2018
  • University of Virginia - May 2018 (slides)
  • Stanford DAWN Project Retreat - March 2018
  • Stanford Security Lunch - October 2017
• Certificate Transaparency with Privacy
  • PETS - July 2017 (video)
  • Stanford Computer Forum Security Workshop - April 2017 (slides, video)
  • IETF 98 - March 2017