I’m a fifth-year PhD student at New York University. I’m fortunate to be advised by Joseph Bonneau.

My PhD research focuses on building efficient zero-knowledge proofs to verify real-world systems. I’m broadly interested in applied cryptography, decentralization, and privacy.

Publications

Nebula: Efficient read-write memory and switchboard circuits for folding schemes
Arasu Arun, Srinath Setty
(under submission)

Jolt: SNARKs for Virtual Machines via Lookups
Arasu Arun, Srinath Setty, Justin Thaler
Eurocrypt 2024

We implemented Jolt as an open-source repository. Blogs: Overview, Engineering

Zombie: Middleboxes that Don’t Snoop
Collin Zhang, Zachary DeStefano, Arasu Arun, Joseph Bonneau, Paul Grubbs, Michael Walfish
NSDI 2024

Riggs: Decentralized Sealed-Bid Auctions
Nirvan Tyagi, Arasu Arun, Cody Freitag, Riad Wahby, Joseph Bonneau, David Mazièras
CCS 2023

Bicorn: An optimistically efficient distributed randomness beacon
Kevin Choi, Arasu Arun, Nirvan Tyagi, Joseph Bonneau
Financial Cryptography 2023

Dew: Transparent Constant-sized zkSNARKs
Sriram Sridhar, Arasu Arun, Chaya Ganesh, Satya Lokam, Tushar Mopuri
PKC 2023

Short-lived Proofs and Signatures
Arasu Arun, Joseph Bonneau, Jeremy Clark
AsiaCrypt 2022

Zero-knowledge Middleboxes
Paul Grubbs, Arasu Arun, Ye Zhang, Joseph Bonneau, Michael Walfish
USENIX Security 2022
Code

Talks

Jolt

ZK Proofs 6, May 2024 - Link
Eurocrypt 2024, May 2024 - Link

Short-lived Proofs

COSIC Seminar, KU Leuven, April 2022 - Link

Zero-knowledge Middleboxes

USENIX Security 2022, August 2022 - Link
SDNS://2021 Workshop, August 2021 - Link

Internships

a16z Crypto, Spring 2024

Microsoft Research (Redmond), Summer 2023

a16z Crypto, Summer 2022

Microsoft Research (Bangalore), Summer 2020