Date/Time
Date(s) - 07/23/2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Speaker
Dr. Siddharth Garg is currently the Institute Associate Professor of ECE at NYU Tandon, where he leads the EnSuRe Research group (https://wp.nyu.edu/ensure_group/).
Abstract
Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) are rapidly gaining importance in privacy-preserving and verifiable computing. ZKPs enable a proving party to prove the truth of a statement to a verifying party without revealing anything else. ZKPs have applications in blockchain technologies, verifiable machine learning, and electronic voting, but have yet to see widespread adoption due to the computational complexity of the proving process. Recent works have accelerated the key primitives of state-of-the-art ZKP protocols on GPUs, but ASIC realizations will be necessary to truly make ZKPs available to all. In this talk, I will cover recent work at NYU on two hardware accelerators, SZKP and zkSpeed, that accelerate the Groth16 and Hyperplonk protocols, respectively. I will conclude with a discussion on future avenues for protocol-hardware co-design, and how to gain additional one to two orders of magnitude efficiency.
Biography
Dr. Siddharth Garg is currently the Institute Associate Professor of ECE at NYU Tandon, where he leads the EnSuRe Research group (https://wp.nyu.edu/ensure_group/). Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor in ECE from 2014-2020, and an Assistant Professor of ECE at the University of Waterloo from 2010-2014. His research interests are in machine learning, cybersecurity, and computer hardware design.
He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009, and a B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. In 2016, Siddharth was listed in Popular Science Magazine’s annual list of “Brilliant 10” researchers. Siddharth has received the NSF CAREER Award (2015), and paper awards at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2016, USENIX Security Symposium 2013, at the Semiconductor Research Consortium TECHCON in 2010, and the International Symposium on Quality in Electronic Design (ISQED) in 2009. Siddharth also received the Angel G. Jordan Award from the ECE department of Carnegie Mellon University for outstanding thesis contributions and service to the community. He serves on the technical program committee of several top conferences in the area of computer engineering and computer hardware, and has served as a reviewer for several IEEE and ACM journals.
