CV [pdf]

Version for industry here.

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science (2024)
  University of Maryland &
  Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP)
  Dissertation: “Practical Cryptography for Blockchains: Secure Protocols with Minimal Trust”
• M.S., Computer Science (2021)
  University of Maryland
• B.S., Mathematics (2019)
  B.S.C.S., Computer Science (2019)
  University of South Carolina Honors College

Publications

You can also find my papers on Google Scholar or dblp.

Like mathematics, in cryptography authors are listed in alphabetical order by default except where indicated by an asterisk.

2026

• Neon-HTLC: Collateral-Free HTLCs with Logarithmic Timeout
  Sebastian Faust, Noemi Glaeser, Marius Hagemann, Ziyan Qu
  ACM CCS 2026
  
• How to Back Up High-Value Secret Keys
  Sanjam Garg, Noemi Glaeser, Abhishek Jain, Michael Lodder, Hart Montgomery
  ACM CCS 2026
  [eprint] [doi] [code]

2025

• CoVault: Secure, Scalable Analytics of Personal Data
  *Roberta De Viti, Isaac Sheff, Noemi Glaeser, Baltasar Dinis, Rodrigo Rodrigues, Bobby Bhattacharjee, Anwar Hithnawi, Deepak Garg, Peter Druschel
  USENIX Security 2025
  [arxiv] [doi]

2024

• Cicada: A framework for private non-interactive on-chain auctions and voting
  *Noemi Glaeser, István András Seres, Michael Zhu, Joseph Bonneau
  CTB Workshop at EC'24
  [eprint] [code]
• Naysayer proofs
  *István András Seres†, Noemi Glaeser†, Joseph Bonneau (†equal contribution)
  FC 2024; CTB Workshop at EC'24
  [eprint] [doi] [talk] [blog]
• Circuit-Succinct Universally-Composable NIZKs with Updatable CRS
  Behzad Abdolmaleki, Noemi Glaeser, Sebastian Ramacher, Daniel Slamanig
  CSF 2024
  [eprint] [doi] [code]

2023

• Efficient Registration-Based Encryption
  Noemi Glaeser, Dimitris Kolonelos, Giulio Malavolta, Ahmadreza Rahimi
  ACM CCS 2023
  [eprint] [doi] [talk] [code]

2022

• Foundations of Coin Mixing Services
  Noemi Glaeser, Matteo Maffei, Giulio Malavolta, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Erkan Tairi, Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan
  ACM CCS 2022; CESC 2022
  [eprint] [doi] [talk]

Selected Previous Publications

• Optical follow-up of gravitational wave triggers with DECam during the first two LIGO/VIRGO observing runs
  *Kenneth Herner, et al.
  Astronomy & Computing, 33, 100425 (2020)
  [arxiv] [doi] [code]
• Access control for a database-defined network
  *Noemi Glaeser, Anduo Wang
  IEEE Sarnoff Symposium 2016
  [doi] [code]

Manuscripts

• Practical Cryptography for Blockchains: Secure Protocols with Minimal Trust
  Noemi Glaeser
  PhD Dissertation (2024)
  [pdf] [source]
• Cryptographic Secret Sharing
  Noemi Glaeser
  UMD Girls Talk Math camp 2022
  [source]

Invited Talks

• Foundations of Coin Mixing Services
  American Mathematical Society (AMS) Spring 2023 Eastern Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Cybersecurity and Cryptography
• Mathematically Sharing Secrets
  UMD Girls Talk Math 2021 Spring Event
  [slides]

Experience

• a16z crypto
  Research Intern (Summer 2023)
• NTT Research, Inc.
  Research Intern (Summer 2022)

Service and Leadership

Program Committees
2027: FC, CT-RSAC
2026: FC, DeFi
2025: FC
2024: ISC, FC
2023: S&P Posters, NDSS Student Support

External Reviewer
EUROCRYPT (2026), CANS (2024), ACISP (2024), S&P (2024), CRYPTO (2023), CCS (2023, 2020), PETS (2023.3, 2022.4, 2022.1), PKC (2022)

Mentorship

• UMD CS Graduate Peer Mentoring Program (Fall 2021 - Spring 2024) – also founder & organizer
  
• Iribe Initiative for Inclusion and Diversity in Computing (I4C) Peer Mentoring Program (Fall 2020)

Technical Skills