I am an assistant professor in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo (since 2023). My interests are cryptography (especially privacy and anonymity) and quantum computing.

Most of my existing research analyzes algorithms that run on computers that may never exist, such as planet-size memories and large-scale quantum computers. Some highlights:

• lattice sieving with realistic memory access costs
• a critique of quantum random-access memory
• the cost to break elliptic curve cryptography with Shor's algorithm

with some recent work on "accumulators", with intended applications for digital credentials.

I completed a PhD at the University of Oxford, supervised by Simon C. Benjamin and Christophe Petit. I have an MMath from the University of Waterloo, which Alfred Menezes and Michele Mosca co-supervised. I have B.Sc. in math and biology from the University of Regina.

Please enjoy my:

• github
• Google scholar
• library of quantum arithmetic
• Mastodon profile
• parkour compilation