Hi, I’m Ihyun!

I am a first year Computer Science Ph.D. student at Stanford University, currently rotating with Professor David Mazières. My research interests are in cryptography and systems security.

Previously, I earned my B.S. in Mathematics, B.S. in Computer Science (Honors), and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford. During that time, I was fortunate to be advised by Professors Dan Boneh, David Mazières, and John Mitchell.

Publications

The Avg-Act Swap and Plaintext Overflow Detection in Homomorphic Operations Over Deep Circuits [Paper] [Code]
      Ihyun Nam
      CODASPY ‘24 (Porto, Portugal)

Shuffle Squares and Reverse Shuffle Squares [Paper]
      Xiaoyu He, Emily Huang, Ihyun Nam, Rishubh Thaper (alphabetic order)
      The European Journal of Combinatorics (Vol 116)

Preprints

A Sparse Polynomial Commitment Scheme from Lattices [Preprint]
      Ihyun Nam and Dan Boneh

A Survey of Multivariate Polynomial Commitment Schemes [Preprint]
      Ihyun Nam

Talks

Passlog: Authentication Logging with Public State
      Stanford Security Lunch (Stanford, CA): April 2026
      Stanford Computer Forum (Stanford, CA): April 2026

The Avg-Act Swap and Plaintext Overflow Detection in Homomorphic Operations Over Deep Circuits
     CODASPY (Porto, Portugal): June 2024
     Symposia for Undergraduate Research and Public Service (Stanford, CA): October 2023

Shuffle Squares and Reverse Shuffle Squares
     Symposia for Undergraduate Research and Public Service (Stanford, CA): October 2022

Teaching

Stanford University
     Teaching Assistant, Math 19 (Fall 2024)
     Teaching Assistant, Hack Lab (Fall 2023)
     Teaching Assistant, Stanford University Mathematics Camp (Summer 2023)

Awards

Stanford School of Engineering Fellowship (Stanford University, 2025)
The Hoefer Prize for Writing in the Major (Stanford University, 2024)
Talent Award of Korea (Ministry of Education, South Korea, 2022)
Presidential Science Scholarship (Korea Student Aid Foundation, 2020-24)

Misc

These are some of the writings I’ve found especially impactful and continue to return to:
The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work
You and Your Research