Samir Menon

SWE at Apple, working in SEAR

Previously: co-founder of Blyss, SWE at Yubico, research in the Stanford Applied Cryptography group

I work in the Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR) group at Apple, on TLS and related internet technologies.

I previously co-founded Blyss with Neil Movva. We worked on running LLMs in hardware enclaves, and on an SDK for private information retrieval.

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

I've also done research in homomorphic encryption and private information retrieval.

Publications

Respire: High-Rate PIR for Databases with Small Records

Alexander Burton, Samir Jordan Menon, and David J. Wu

ACM CCS 2024
YPIR: High-Throughput Single-Server PIR with Silent Preprocessing

Samir Jordan Menon and David J. Wu

USENIX Security 2024
Spiral: Fast, High-Rate Single-Server PIR via FHE Composition

Samir Jordan Menon and David J. Wu

Oakland (IEEE S&P) 2022

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.