People
Chen Binyi
Cryptography, ZK-SNARKs
Experience
Postdoc, Stanford University, Computer Science, (2026)
Chief Cryptographer, Espresso Systems, (2020-2025)
PhD, University of California Santa Barbara, Computer Science (2019)
Visiting Researcher, University of Washington (2018-2019)
Research Intern, VISA Research (2018)
Bachelor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ACM Class (2014)
Bio
Binyi Chen is an assistant professor at Tsinghua University Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Science (IIIS). His research spans various fields of cryptography, with a recent focus on post-quantum cryptography, zero-knowledge succinct proofs (ZK-SNARKs), and AI safety. Before joining Tsinghua, he was a postdoc researcher at Stanford University, advised by Prof. Dan Boneh. Previously, he was the chief cryptographer at Espresso Systems. He earned his Ph.D. from University of California, Santa Barbara, and received his bachelor degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ACM Honors Class. He invented many modern proof systems, including Hyperplonk, Protostar, BaseFold, Blaze, and LatticeFold, which serve as the backbones for many real-world systems.
Honors and Awards
UCSB Outstanding Publication Award (2018)
Best Paper Award, EUROCRYPT (2017)
Microsoft Academic Scholarship (2013)
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