I am a postdoc at MIT in computer science with Henry Corrigan-Gibbs. I am broadly interested in building secure systems using cryptography.
I completed my Ph.D. in computer science at UC Berkeley where I was advised by Raluca Ada Popa and Ion Stoica. Before that, I finished my B.S. and M.S. in computer science at Stanford University where I was advised by David Mazières and was also fortunate to work with Dan Boneh and Henry Corrigan-Gibbs.
I will be starting as an assistant professor at Stanford in fall 2025.
Secret Key Recovery in a Global-Scale End-to-End Encryption System
Graeme Connell*, Vivian Fang*, Rolfe Schmidt*, Emma Dauterman, and Raluca Ada Popa
OSDI 2024 (to appear) [full version] [code] [artifact eval]
Lightweb: Private web browsing without all the baggage [paper]
Emma Dauterman and Henry Corrigan-Gibbs
HotNets 2023
Private web search with Tiptoe [full version] [system code, crypto code] [blog post]
Alexandra Henzinger, Emma Dauterman, Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, and Nickolai Zeldovich
SOSP 2023
Accountable authentication with privacy protection: The Larch system for universal login [full version] [code]
Emma Dauterman, Danny Lin, Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, and David Mazières
OSDI 2023
Reflections on Trusting Distributed Trust [paper]
Emma Dauterman*, Vivian Fang*, Natacha Crooks, and Raluca Ada Popa
HotNets 2022
Waldo: A Private Time-Series Database from Function Secret Sharing [full version] [code]
Emma Dauterman, Mayank Rathee, Raluca Ada Popa, and Ion Stoica
IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2022
Snoopy: Surpassing the Scalability Bottleneck of Oblivious Storage [conference proceedings] [full version] [code]
Emma Dauterman*, Vivian Fang*, Ioannis Demertzis, Natacha Crooks, and Raluca Ada Popa
SOSP 2021
DORY: An Encrypted Search System with Distributed Trust [conference proceedings] [full version] [code]
Emma Dauterman, Eric Feng, Ellen Luo, Raluca Ada Popa, and Ion Stoica
OSDI 2020
SafetyPin: Encrypted Backups with Human-Memorable Secrets [conference proceedings] [full version] [code]
Emma Dauterman, Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, and David Mazières
OSDI 2020
True2F: Backdoor-resistant authentication tokens [paper] [reference code] [host code]
Emma Dauterman, Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, David Mazières, Dan Boneh, and Dominic Rizzo
IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2019
First Place, CSAW US-Canada Applied Research Competition
Reducing Participation Costs via Incremental Verification for Ledger Systems [paper] [IVLS implementation] [PCD implementation] [non-native field constraints] [constraints for Marlin] [constraints for Marlin's polynomial commitments]
Weikeng Chen*, Alessandro Chiesa*, Emma Dauterman*, and Nicholas P. Ward*
* denotes equal first-authors
"Secure systems from insecure components"
Dissertation talk (Berkeley, CA): May 2024
Harvard University (Cambridge, MA): April 2024
UT Austin (Austin, TX): April 2024
Columbia University (New York, NY): April 2024
CMU (Pittsburgh, PA): April 2024
University of Washington (Seattle, WA): March 2024
UC San Diego (San Diego, CA): March 2024
MIT (Cambridge, MA): March 2024
Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA): March 2024
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ): March 2024
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA): February 2024
New York University (New York, NY): February 2024
Cornell University (Ithaca, NY): February 2024
Brown University (Providence, RI): February 2024
"Lightweb: Private web browsing without all the baggage"
HotNets (Cambridge, MA): November 2023
"Private web search with Tiptoe"
New York Crypto Day (New York, NY): October 2023
Columbia University (New York, NY): October 2023
"Accountable authentication with privacy protection: The Larch system for universal login"
Google (New York, NY): October 2023
Brown University (Providence, RI): October 2023
Stanford Security Seminar (Palo Alto, CA): July 2023
OSDI (Boston, MA): July 2023 [slides]
MIT (Cambridge, MA): July 2023
"Reflections on Trusting Distributed Trust"
Intel (virtual): May 2023
HotNets (Austin, TX): November 2022 [slides, video]
"Waldo: A Private Time-Series Database from Function Secret Sharing"
CRYPTO PPML workshop (Santa Barbara, CA): August 2023
Soroco (virtual): October 2022
CMU Applied Crypto Seminar (Pittsburgh, PA): September 2022
Stanford Security Lunch (Palo Alto, CA): July 2022
Sky Computing Retreat (Tahoe, NV): May 2022
IEEE S&P (San Francisco, CA): May 2022 [video, slides]
ETH Zurich Applied Crypto Seminar (virtual): March 2022
"Snoopy: Surpassing the Scalability Bottleneck of Oblivious Storage"
MIT (Cambridge, MA): April 2022
Stanford Security Lunch (Palo Alto, CA): November 2021
SOSP (virtual): October 2021 [short video, long video, slides]
CMU CyLab Seminar (virtual): October 2021 [slides]
Cornell Security Seminar (virtual): October 2021
"DORY: An Encrypted Search System with Distributed Trust"
Microsoft Research (virtual): August 2021
CMU Applied Crypto Seminar (virtual): May 2021
MIT Security Seminar (virtual): April 2021
Stanford Security Lunch (virtual): April 2021
University of Michigan (virtual): April 2021
RISELab Winter Retreat (virtual): January 2021
OSDI (virtual): November 2020 [slides, video]
"SafetyPin: Encrypted Backups with Human-Memorable Secrets"
Facebook (virtual): March 2021 [slides]
Google (virtual): February 2021 [slides]
OSDI (virtual): November 2020 [slides, video]
Stanford Security Lunch (Stanford, CA): June 2020
"True2F: Backdoor-resistant authentication tokens"
Cloudflare (San Francisco, CA): October 2019 [slides, video]
Secure Internet of Things Project Retreat (Santa Cruz, CA): June 2019 [slides]
Dropbox (San Francisco, CA): June 2019
IEEE S&P (Oakland) (San Francisco, CA): May 2019 [slides, video]
Duo (Ann Arbor, MI): April 2019 [slides, video]
Stanford Computer Forum Security Workshop (Palo Alto, CA): April 2019 [slides, video]
Real World Crypto (San Jose, CA): January 2019 [slides, video)
FIDO Alliance Member Plenary (Austin, TX): January 2019 [slides]
Google (Sunnyvale, CA): November 2018
Stanford Security Lunch (Stanford, CA): October 2018
Selected for EECS Rising Stars workshop
Microsoft Ada Lovelace Research Fellowship
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Berkeley EECS Excellence Award
First Place, CSAW US-Canada Applied Research Competition
Stanford Phi Beta Kappa
Stanford Tau Beta Pi
CS 294-163: Building Systems with Decentralized Trust (Berkeley) - Co-Instructor (Fall 2022)
CS 194-200: How to Do Research and Social Impact Projects in Teams (Berkeley) - Graduate Student Instructor (Spring 2022)
CS 140: Operating Systems (Stanford) - Course Assistant (Winter 2019)
CS 110: Principles of Computer Systems (Stanford) - Course Assistant (Fall 2018)
CS 106A: Programming Methodology (Stanford) - Section Leader (Fall 2015, Winter 2016)
I was an organizer for the Berkeley DARE program and ran the Berkeley security seminar.
PC committees:
CATS 2023 (CCS workshop)
Photo by Paul Gargagliano. Website style adapted from Wenting Zheng.