Andrew Zitek-Estrada

About Me

I am a cryptography engineer at EPFL, working in the Laboratory for Computation Security led by Alessandro Chiesa.

Previously, I was a research assistant at NYU with Joseph Bonneau and also a software engineer at IBM.

A Time-Space Tradeoff for the Sumcheck Prover
Alessandro Chiesa, Elisabetta Fedele, Giacomo Fenzi, Andrew Zitek-Estrada
Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2024/524

VeRSA: Verifiable Registries with Efficient Client Audits from RSA Authenticated Dictionaries
Nirvan Tyagi, Ben Fisch, Andrew Zitek, Joseph Bonneau, Stefano Tessaro
CCS 2022 (29th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security)

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I joined the Laboratory for Computation Security at EPFL as a cryptography engineer in fall of 2023; my work is advised by Alessandro Chiesa.

Before that, I completed graduate coursework in computer science at NYU and was a research assistant for Joseph Bonneau.

During this time, I was also a software engineer at IBM in New York City.

For two amazing winters, I lived in the Eastern Sierra of California between Mammoth Lakes and Bishop.

Before that, I was a software engineer at the telehealth startup Talkspace.

I earned my B.A. in Computer Science from NYU in summer of 2013. Outside of class, I ran for the varsity cross country and track teams at NYU.

Before moving to NYC, I grew up in Ventura, California, where I was born in 1990. I attended Foothill Tech and did sports at Ventura High.

I enjoy skiing and 📷 rock climbing very much. I also enjoy new recipes I find on cooking shows and playing guitar.