David Wu
Assistant Professor
David Wu is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He is broadly interested in applied and theoretical cryptography as well as computer security. Previously, David received a PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 2018 and was an assistant professor at the University of Virginia from 2019 to 2021. He has received the NSF CAREER Award, the Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship, and a Google Research Scholar Award. His work has been recognized with a Best Paper Award at CRYPTO (2022), two Best Young-Researcher Paper Awards at CRYPTO (2017, 2018) and an Outstanding Paper Award at ESORICS (2016).
Research
Research Areas:
Research Interests:
Theoretical and applied cryptography; computer security.
Select Publications
Sijun Tan, Brian Knott, Yuan Tian, and David J. Wu. 2021. CryptGPU: Fast Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning on the GPU. IEEE Security and Privacy ("Oakland").
Ohad Barta, Yuval Ishai, Rafail Ostrovsky, and David J. Wu. 2020. On Succinct Arguments and Witness Encryption from Groups. CRYPTO.
Benoît Libert, Alain Passelègue, Hoeteck Wee, and David J. Wu. 2020. New Constructions of Statistical NIZKs: Dual-Mode DV-NIZKs and More. EUROCRYPT.
Alex Lombardi, Willy Quach, Ron D. Rothblum, Daniel Wichs, and David J. Wu. 2019. New Constructions of Reusable Designated-Verifier NIZKs. CRYPTO.
Sam Kim and David J. Wu. 2018. Multi-Theorem Preprocessing NIZKs from Lattices. CRYPTO.
Awards & Honors
2022 -
Best Paper Award, CRYPTO
2021 -
Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow
2021 -
NSF CAREER Award
2018 -
Best Young-Researcher Paper Award, CRYPTO
2017 -
Best Young-Researcher Paper Award, CRYPTO
2016 -
Outstanding Paper Award, ESORICS
