Wei-Kai Lin
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
About
I am an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at University of Virginia. Earlier, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University, advised by Professor Daniel Wichs. I got my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Cornell and then worked as a postdoc at CMU, both advised by Professor Elaine Shi. Prior to that, I got my B.S. and M.S. degrees from National Taiwan University, and then I was a software engineer.
My research interests include: Cryptography, Algorithms, Theoretical Computer Science.
Education
Cornell University, PhD
National Taiwan University, Master
National Taiwan University, Bachelor
Research Interests
Cryptography
Theoretical cryptography and its intersection with algorithms, with a focus on private accesses on big data
Selected Publications
Doubly Efficient Private Information Retrieval and Fully Homomorphic RAM Computation from Ring LWE. STOC 2023, Best Paper Award.
Wei-Kai Lin, Ethan Mook, and Daniel Wichs.
IACR eprint
OptORAMa: Optimal Oblivious RAM. Eurocrypt 2020, JACM 2022.
Gilad Asharov, Ilan Komargodski, Wei-Kai Lin, Kartik Nayak, Enoch Peserico, and Elaine Shi
IACR eprint
Courses Taught
Introduction to Cryptography
(Graduate) CS 6222, Fall 2023
Cryptography
(Undergrad) CS 4501, Spring 2024