Weikeng Chen [CV] [Github] Research Partner, L2 Iterative Email: w.k@berkeley.edu

Bio

I am a research partner of L2 Iterative.

I received my Doctor of Philosophy degree from UC Berkeley in 2022 in the RISELab. My advisor is Raluca Ada Popa. I also work with Alessandro Chiesa.

I received my Bachelor of Engineering (B. Eng) degree with honors from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2017 and my Master of Science (M.S.) degree from UC Berkeley in 2019.

Companies with interest

My interest is aligned with the following companies through partnership in L2 Iterative, investment DAO, or angel checks:

This list does not include investments that are not finalized.

Research

My research focuses on systems and applications of MPC and ZKP.

Publication

• HOLMES: Efficient Distribution Testing for Secure Collaborative Learning

  Ian Chang, Katerina Sotiraki, Weikeng Chen, Murat Kantarcioglu, and Raluca Ada Popa

  USENIX Security 2023 (ePrint 2021/1517)

• MPCAuth: Multi-Factor Authentication for Distributed-Trust Systems

  Sijun Tan, Weikeng Chen, Ryan Deng, and Raluca Ada Popa

  IEEE S&P 2023 (ePrint 2021/342)

• An Efficient Verifiable State for zk-EVM and Beyond From the Anemoi Hash Function

  Jianwei Liu, Harshad Patil, Akhil Sai Peddireddy, Kevin Singh, Haifeng Sun, Huachuang Sun, and Weikeng Chen

  (ePrint 2022/1487)

• Yafa-108/146: Implementing ed25519-Embedding Cocks-Pinch Curves in arkworks-rs

  Rami Akeela and Weikeng Chen

  (ePrint 2022/1145)

• The Inspection Model for Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Efficient Zerocash with Secp256k1 Keys

  (reverse alphabetical order) Huachuang Sun, Haifeng Sun, Kevin Singh, Akhil Sai Peddireddy, Harshad Patddil, Jianwei Liu, and Weikeng Chen

  (ePrint 2022/1079)

• Reducing Participation Costs via Incremental Verification for Ledger Systems

  (alphabetical order) Weikeng Chen, Alessandro Chiesa, Emma Dauterman, and Nicholas P. Ward

  (ePrint 2020/1522)

• Titanium: A Metadata-Hiding File-Sharing System with Malicious Security

  Weikeng Chen, Thang Hoang, Jorge Guajardo, and Attila A. Yavuz

  NDSS 2022 (ePrint 2022/051)

• Cerebro: A Platform for Multi-Party Cryptographic Collaborative Learning

  Wenting Zheng, Ryan Deng, Weikeng Chen, Raluca Ada Popa, Aurojit Panda, and Ion Stoica

  PPML @ CRYPTO 2021, USENIX Security 2021

  (Paper)

  

• Metal: A Metadata-Hiding File-Sharing System

  Weikeng Chen and Raluca Ada Popa

  NDSS 2020

  (Paper) (Website)

In undergraduate years,

• Combining Data Owner-Side and Cloud-Side Access Control for Encrypted Cloud Storage

  Kaiping Xue, Weikeng Chen, Wei Li, Jianan Hong, and Peilin Hong

  IEEE TIFS 2018

  (Paper)

• TAFC: Time and Attribute Factors Combined Access Control for Time-Sensitive Data in Public Cloud

  Jianan Hong, Kaiping Xue, Yingjie Xue, Weikeng Chen, David S. L. Wei, Nenghai Yu, and Peilin Hong

  IEEE TSC 2017

  (Paper)

• Exploring a Service-Based Normal Behaviour Profiling System for Botnet Detection

  Weikeng Chen, Xiao Luo, and A. Nur Zincir-Heywood

  IM AnNet Workshop 2017

  (Paper)

• A Privacy-Preserving and Real-Time Traceable Power Request Scheme for Smart Grid

  Qingyou Yang, Jianan Hong, Kaiping Xue, Weikeng Chen, Xiang Zhang, and Hao Yue

  ICC 2017

  (Paper)