Lisa Masserova

Applied Cryptography

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7009 Gates and Hillman Centers

4902 Forbes Ave

Pittsburgh, PA 15213

USA

I am a Carnegie Bosch postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University hosted by Elaine Shi. Previously, I completed my PhD at Carnegie Mellon under the advisement of Bryan Parno and Vipul Goyal. I am broadly interested in applied cryptography, especially MPC, blockchains, and the intersection of crypto x AI. I particularly enjoy working on problems that help society.

Before joining CMU, I received my Bachelor degrees in CS and Mathematics, as well as a Master’s degree in CS from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

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Feb 01, 2026 Our paper “Game Theory Does Not Always Help: The Case of Statistical Multi-Party Coin Tossing” has been accepted at Eurocrypt! Thanks to my co-athors Chen-Da, João, and Aravind. An eprint is coming soon.
Nov 23, 2025 Our paper “Data Forging Attacks on Cryptographic Model Certification” was accepted at RegML at NeurIPS 2025. Thanks to my amazing co-authors! An updated and expanded version coming soon.
Aug 11, 2025 The full version of our paper Towards Scalable YOSO MPC via Packed Secret-Sharing was accepted at Asiacrypt 2025. Thanks to my great co-authors!
Jun 30, 2025 I will be presenting “Non-Interactive and Publicly Verifiable Zero Knowledge Proof for Fair Decision Trees” at PPML at Crypto 2025.
Apr 17, 2025 Our paper Towards Scalable YOSO MPC via Packed Secret-Sharing will be announced at PODC 2025. Thanks to my amazing co-authors!
Jan 31, 2025 Excited to share that Efficient Distributed Randomness Generation from Minimal Assumptions where PArties Speak Sequentially Once was accepted at Eurocrypt 2025! Thanks to my great co-authors.
Dec 06, 2024 Our paper on Atomic Swaps Secure under User-Miner Collusion was accepted at FC 2025. Thanks to my awesome co-authors!
Nov 19, 2024 Our paper on PASSO randomness generation was accepted at TPMPC 2025!
Nov 08, 2024 Our paper on ZK proofs for fair machine learning was accepted at RegML @NeurIPS2024 and was additionally selected for a contributed talk. Thanks to my amazing co-authors!
Oct 07, 2024 Very excited to give a talk on YOSO randomness generation at UPenn’s Security and Privacy Lab seminar. Thanks for the invitation!
Sep 22, 2024 I am starting a postdoc position at CMU, hosted by Elaine Shi! My position is generously supported by the Carnegie Bosch Postdoctoral fellowship.
Sep 06, 2024 I succesfully defended my thesis, Distributed Cryptography as a Service! 🎓