Samir Menon

Software Engineer at Yubico

B.S. + M.S. '19 Computer Science at Stanford University

I am currently a software engineer at Yubico, where I work on secure device manufacturing and programming. Outside of work, I 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 Prof. Boneh's lab on speeding up lattice-based SNARKs.