Yanqi Gu
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Email: yanqig1 [at] uci [dot] edu
Office: Donald Bren Hall #4039

About Me

I am now a Research Scientist at Meta, working on maximizing data utility to products while upholding high privacy standards.
I received my PhD from University of California, Irvine in 2024, advised by Prof. Stanislaw Jarecki. During summer 2023 I visited University of California, Berkeley, hosted by Prof. Sanjam Garg.
My research focuses on applied cryptography and its applications in security and privacy protection.

Research

(authors are ordered alphabetically in cryptography)
Password based secure CDN authentication
Manuscript (title anonymized to avoid conflicts)
A Generic Construction of lattice-based Asymmetric PAKE
Manuscript (title anonymized to avoid conflicts)
A Secure Thrid-party Mechanism for Home IoT Devices
Manuscript (title anonymized to avoid conflicts)
Security without Trusted Third Parties: VRF-based Authentication with Short Authenticated Strings
Yanqi Gu, Stanislaw Jarecki, Phillip Nazarian and Apurva Rai
ASIACRYPT 2025
[paper]
Enabling Anonymous Online Streaming Analytics at the Network Edge
Yunming Xiao, Yanqi Gu, Yibo Zhao, Sen Lin, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
Transactions on Computer Systems 2025
[paper]
PreAcher: Secure and Practical Password Pre-Authentication by Content Delivery Networks
Shihan Lin, Suting Chen, Yunming Xiao, Yanqi Gu, Xiaowei Yang, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
NSDI 2025
[paper]
Threshold PAKE with Security against Compromise of all Servers
Yanqi Gu, Stanislaw Jarecki, Paweł Kędzior, Phillip Nazarian and Jiayu Xu
ASIACRYPT 2024
[paper]
Randomized Half-Ideal Cipher on Groups with applications to UC (a)PAKE
Bruno Freitas Dos Santos, Yanqi Gu and Stanislaw Jarecki
EUROCRYPT 2023
[paper]
Asymmetric PAKE with low computation and communication
Bruno Freitas Dos Santos, Yanqi Gu, Stanislaw Jarecki and Hugo Krawczyk
EUROCRYPT 2022
[paper]
KHAPE: Asymmetric PAKE from Key-Hiding Key Exchange
Yanqi Gu, Stanislaw Jarecki and Hugo Krawczyk
CRYPTO 2021
[paper][eprint]
GPU-acceleration on a low-latency binary-coalescence gravitational wave search pipeline
Xiangyu Guo, Qi Chu, Shin Kee Chung, Zhihui Du, Linqing Wen, Yanqi Gu
Computer Physics Communications 2018
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Experience

  • Summer 2022: Intern at Private AI at Intel.
  • Summer 2021: Intern at Security Lab at JD.com.
  • Summer 2020: Intern at Security Research team at Microsoft.
  • Summer 2019: Intern at Intertrust, working on Fully Homomorphic Encryption.

    • Services

  • Program Committee: ACNS 2025
  • Reviewer: Crypto, Eurocrypt, TCC, etc

    • Teaching

  • TA for ICS 6D - Introduction to Discrete Mathematics, UC Irvine, Winter 24, Fall 23, Winter 23, Winter 19
  • TA for CS 175 - Projects in AI(Adversarial ML), UC Irvine, Spring 22
  • TA for CS 268P - Introduction to Optimization, UC Irvine, Fall 21
  • TA for CS 175 - Projects in AI, UC Irvine, Winter 21
  • TA for CS 169/268 - Introduction to Optimization, UC Irvine, Fall 19

    • Misc.

  • I'm maintaining Awesome-Privacy on Github. You are more than welcome to contribute & share :)

    • Last updated on Oct 2025.