I am a computer scientist working on the foundations of cryptography and the security of practical cryptographic protocols. My current interests are in the aspects of post-quantum cryptography not motivated by Shor's algorithm; e.g quantum rewinding and the quantum random oracle model.

Currently I am a second-year PhD student at Columbia University, where I am advised by James Bartusek. I am a member of the CS Theory group and Crypto Lab, and I co-organize the Theory Student Seminar. I completed my masters in computer science at Oregon State University, co-advised by Jiayu Xu and Mike Rosulek. Before that I worked as a software engineer at Epic (this one, not that one) and completed my undergraduate degree in mathematics at Cornell University.

My other interests include movies, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and science fiction.

Email: [lastname][firstinitial]@gmail.com

Signal (preferred): @jakej.89

Research Philosophy

You and your research - Richard Hamming
Does one have to be a genius to do maths? - Terence Tao

Preprints

Natural Barriers to Quantum Extraction: On the Post-Quantum (In)security of (O)EKE and Masny-Rindal OT with James Bartusek (eprint)

Publications

A Complete Characterization of One-More Assumptions In the Algebraic Group Model
with Jiayu Xu (eprint)
Asiacrypt 2025
Lower Bounds for Garbled Circuits from Shannon-Type Information Inequalities
with Mike Rosulek, Lawrence Roy (eprint)
Crypto 2025
Under What Conditions Is Encrypted Key Exchange Actually Secure?
with Lawrence Roy, Jiayu Xu (eprint)
Eurocrypt 2025

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