I'm a final-year PhD student at UIUC, working with Prof. Andrew Miller. At the moment, I am visiting Prof. Babis Papamanthou at Yale.
My research develops the cryptographic and systems foundations for verifiable and privacy-preserving identity infrastructure. I design protocols and proofs that make large-scale transparency and accountability possible without compromising privacy—both drawing on and advancing tools such as authenticated data structures, memory checking, and zero-knowledge proofs. My approach combines traditional applied cryptography with decentralized systems, using tools such as SNARKs and MPC to design protocols that are both rigorous and deployable. My work spans both theory and practice, from lower bounds for authenticated dictionaries to deployed systems such as Parakeet (used by WhatsApp, awarded the IETF Applied Networking Research Prize), and CanDID, whose component DECO protocol was acquired by Chainlink Labs.
I am a two-time Facebook Fellowship finalist (2021, 2022).
Jens Groth and Harjasleen Malvai and Andrew Miller and Yi-Nuo Zhang
(to appear in 2025 Asiacrypt)
Nerla Jean-Louis and Yunqi Li and Yan Ji and Harjasleen Malvai and Thomas Yurek and Sylvain Bellmare and Andrew Miller
2024 PETS Symposium
Harjasleen Malvai and Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias and Alberto Sonnino and Esha Ghosh and Ercan Oztürk and Kevin Lewi and Sean Lawlor
2023 NDSS Symposium
Irakliy Khaburzaniya and Kostas Chalkias and Kevin Lewi and Harjasleen Malvai
2022 ACM Asia CCS
Deepak Maram and Harjasleen Malvai and Fan Zhang and Nerla Jean-Louis and Alexander Frolov and Tyler Kell and Tyrone Lobban and Christine Moy and Ari Juels and Andrew Miller
2021 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
Fan Zhang and Deepak Maram and Harjasleen Malvai and Steven Goldfeder and Ari Juels
Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Melissa Chase and Apoorvaa Deshpande and Esha Ghosh and Harjasleen Malvai
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC conference on computer and communications security
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(largely built by Irakliy Khaburzaniya)
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Irakliy Khaburzaniya and Kostas Chalkias and Kevin Lewi and Harjasleen Malvai
2021
My email is <firstname><lastname> at gmail dot com. You can also find it on the top of my CV!
