Samir Menon

menon.samir@gmail.com

Co-founder of Blyss

Prev: SWE at Yubico, research in the Stanford Applied Cryptography group

I recently co-founded Blyss with Neil Movva. We are building an SDK that makes it easy to use homomorphic encryption.

I was previously a software engineer at Yubico, where I worked on secure device manufacturing and programming.

I also do research on homomorphic encryption and private information retrieval.

Publications

Spiral: Fast, High-Rate Single-Server PIR via FHE Composition

Samir Jordan Menon and David J. Wu

Oakland (IEEE S&P) 2022

We introduced a family of single-server PIR protocols called Spiral that achieves lower computational and communication costs than prior work. You can try a demo of our work to read Wikipedia privately (code, HN).

Background

I got my B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science in 2019 from Stanford University; my tracks were Systems and Computer & Network Security. While there, I was a TA for Prof. Dan Boneh's CS 255 (cryptography) and CS 251 (blockchain) classes. I also did research in the Applied Cryptography group on speeding up lattice-based SNARKs.