About Me

I am a third year Ph.D. student in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of California, San Diego, and a member of the Security and Cryptography Group. I am fortunate to work with Professor Daniele Micciancio.

Previously, I received an M.S. in Computer Science here at UCSD. Before that, I received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN where I worked at GroupLens Research. While at Minnesota, I also was part of the team that created Chipmark, an open-source, online bookmark service.

Here at UCSD, I am also co-coordinator of the CSE GSA.

Publications

Daniele Micciancio and Scott Yilek.
The Round-Complexity of Black-Box Zero-Knowledge: A Combinatorial Characterization.
TCC '08: Fifth Theory of Cryptography Conference.

Dan Frankowski, Shyong K. (Tony) Lam, Shilad Sen, F. Maxwell Harper, Scott Yilek, Michael Cassano, John Riedl.
Recommenders Everywhere: The WikiLens Community-Maintained Recommender System.
WikiSym '07: Proceedings of the 2007 International Symposium on Wikis.

Thomas Ristenpart and Scott Yilek.
The Power of Proofs-of-Possession: Securing Multiparty Signatures against Rogue-Key Attacks.
Advances in Cryptology-Eurocrypt 2007.