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, working on applied cryptography and its applications in security and privacy protection, advised by Prof. Stanislaw Jarecki. During summer 2023 I visited University of California, Berkeley, hosted by Prof. Sanjam Garg.


Research

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, 2026, ACL 2026 (Industry Track)
  • 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 Feb 2026.