About Me
I'm a fourth-year PhD student at NYU Courant advised by Joseph Bonneau.My research focuses on applying zero-knowledge proofs to real-world systems. I'm broadly interested in applied cryptography, privacy, and blockchains.
Internships
Microsoft Research Redmond (Summer 2023).Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)'s crypto research group (Summer 2022)
Microsoft Research Bangalore (Summer 2020).
Publications
Jolt: SNARKs for Virtual Machines via Lookups [eprint]- Arasu Arun , Srinath Setty, Justin Thaler
Zombie: Middleboxes that Don’t Snoop (NSDI 2024) [eprint]
- Collin Zhang, Zachary DeStefano, Arasu Arun , Joseph Bonneau, Paul Grubbs, Michael Walfish
Riggs: Decentralized Sealed-Bid Auctions (ACM CCS 2023) [eprint]
- Nirvan Tyagi, Arasu Arun , Cody Freitag, Riady Wahby, Joseph Bonneau, David Mazières
Bicorn: An optimistically efficient distributed randomness beacon (Financial Cryptography 2023) [eprint]
- Kevin Choi, Arasu Arun , Nirvan Tyagi, Joseph Bonneau
Dew: Transparent Constant-sized zkSNARKs (IACR PKC 2023) [eprint]
- Sriram Sridhar, Arasu Arun , Chaya Ganesh, Satya Lokam, Tushar Mopuri, Sriram Sridhar
Short-Lived Proofs and Signatures (IACR AsiaCrypt 2022) [eprint]
- Arasu Arun , Joseph Bonneau, Jeremy Clark
- Talks: [COSIC Seminar in April 2022, KU Leuven]
Zero-Knowledge Middleboxes (USENIX Security 2022) [eprint] [code]
- Paul Grubbs, Arasu Arun , Ye Zhang, Joseph Bonneau, Michael Walfish
- Talks: [USENIX Security 2022] and [Real World Crypto 22]