Saba Eskandarian Office: 346 Brooks Building Email: saba@cs.unc.edu I am an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My research focuses on applied cryptography, security, and privacy. Previously, I was a PhD student in the Applied Cryptography Group at Stanford University, advised by Dan Boneh. Before that, I completed my bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science with an undergraduate minor in Applied Mathematics at the University of Virginia, advised by Mohammad Mahmoody. I made a tool for more easily viewing UNC course listings. I am looking for new PhD students for fall 2025! Please see the UNC CS admissions page for information about applying.

Teaching Students Publications Program Committees

Teaching

COMP 537: Cryptography	Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024
COMP 590/790: Privacy Enhancing Technologies	Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
CS355: Topics in Cryptography (co-instructor)	Spring 2020, Spring 2021

Graduate Students

• Current:
• Matthew Gregoire
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• Former:
• Maggie Pierce, MS 2022-24
• Britney Bourassa, MS 2022-24
• Connor Bell, MS 2021-23

Publications

• Abuse Reporting for Metadata-Hiding Communication Based on Secret Sharing
  Saba Eskandarian
  USENIX Security 2024 (code)
• Anonymous Complaint Aggregation for Secure Messaging
  Connor Bell, Saba Eskandarian
  PETS 2024 (code)
• CheckOut: User-Controlled Anonymization for Customer Loyalty Programs
  Matthew Gregoire, Rachel Thomas, Saba Eskandarian
  PETS 2024 (code)
• DBREACH: Stealing from Databases Using Compression Side-Channels
  Mathew Hogan, Yan Michalevsky, Saba Eskandarian
  IEEE S&P 2023 (code)
• Clarion: Anonymous Communication from Multiparty Shuffling Protocols
  Saba Eskandarian, Dan Boneh
  NDSS 2022 (code)
• Strong Anonymity for Mesh Messaging
  Neil Perry, Bruce Spang, Saba Eskandarian, Dan Boneh
  Preprint (code)
• Secure Complaint-Enabled Source-Tracking for Encrypted Messaging
  Charlotte Peale, Saba Eskandarian, Dan Boneh
  CCS 2021 (code)
• Attacks on Onion Discovery and Remedies via Self-Authenticating Traditional Addresses
  Paul Syverson, Matthew Finkel, Saba Eskandarian, Dan Boneh
  WPES 2021
• Strong Privacy for Communication, Browsing, and Storage
  Saba Eskandarian
  PhD Dissertation, 2021
  
• Fast Privacy-Preserving Punch Cards
  Saba Eskandarian
  PETS 2021 (code)
  Runner-up for Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award
• Express: Lowering the Cost of Metadata-hiding Communication with Cryptographic Privacy
  Saba Eskandarian, Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, Matei Zaharia, Dan Boneh
  USENIX Security 2021 (code)
• Improving Speed and Security in Updatable Encryption Schemes
  Dan Boneh, Saba Eskandarian, Sam Kim, Maurice Shih
  Asiacrypt 2020 (code)
• Single Secret Leader Election
  Dan Boneh, Saba Eskandarian, Lucjan Hanzlik, Nicola Greco
  ACM AFT 2020
• Privacy-Preserving Payment Splitting
  Saba Eskandarian, Mihai Christodorescu, Payman Mohassel
  PETS 2020
• ObliDB: Oblivious Query Processing for Secure Databases
  Saba Eskandarian, Matei Zaharia
  VLDB 2020 (code)
• Fidelius: Protecting User Secrets from Compromised Browsers
  Saba Eskandarian, Jonathan Cogan, Sawyer Birnbaum, Peh Chang Wei Brandon, Dillon Franke, Forest Fraser, Gaspar Garcia, Eric Gong, Hung Nguyen, Taresh Sethi, Vishal Subbiah, Michael Backes, Giancarlo Pellegrino, Dan Boneh
  IEEE S&P 2019 (code, press)
• Post-Quantum EPID Signatures from Symmetric Primitives
  Dan Boneh, Saba Eskandarian, Ben Fisch
  CT-RSA 2019
• Certificate Transparency with Privacy
  Saba Eskandarian, Eran Messeri, Joseph Bonneau, Dan Boneh
  PETS 2017

Program Committees

Conferences:	IEEE S&P 2025, PETS 2025, IEEE S&P 2024, ACM CCS 2023, PETS 2023, USENIX Security 2022, Asiacrypt 2022, PETS 2022
Workshops:	PPMLP at CCS 2020
External reviews:	USENIX Security, IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, NDSS, Crypto, Eurocrypt, NSDI, VLDB, PETS, Stanford Blockchain Conference, CCSW workshop, EuroSec