Anwar Hithnawi
I am an Ambizione research fellow at ETH Zurich where I lead the PPS Research Lab. My research focuses on data privacy, applied cryptography, and systems. I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at ETH Zurich. Upon graduating, I spent two wonderful years as a postdoc at UC Berkeley.
Current Students:
- Lukas Burkhalter, Ph.D. Student, 2018-present
- Alexander Viand, Ph.D. Student, 2019-present
- Nicolas Küchler, Ph.D. Student, 2020-present
- Hidde Lycklama, Ph.D. Student, 2021-present
Past Students:
Master Thesis Students: Patrick Jattke (→ Ph.D. student at ETH Zurich), Nicolas Küchler (→ Ph.D. student at ETH Zurich), Hidde Lycklama (→ Ph.D. student at ETH Zurich), Liangcheng Yu (→ Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania), Matthias Lei (→ Senior Consultant at Innovation Process Technology), Michel Kaporin (→ Software Engineer at ti&m), Lukas Burkhalter - thesis awarded ETH medal (→ Ph.D. student at ETH Zurich), Dominic Plangger (→ Lead Engineer at xorlab), Su Li (→ Ph.D. student at EPFL), Vaibhav Kulkarni (→ Ph.D. student at the University of Lausanne).
Others: Yonathan Fisseha - Research internship, Liangcheng Yu - Research internship, Jan Wolf - Bachelor thesis.
Awards and Fellowships:
- ETH Research Grant (200k $).
- SNF Ambizione Grant (1 million $).
- SNF Postdoctoral Fellowship.
- Google Anita Borg Scholarship.
- DAAD Scholarship for Master's Studies.
- Birzeit University Merit Scholarship.
Selected Publications:
Zeph: Cryptographic Enforcement of End-to-End Data Privacy. Github
Lukas Burkhalter*, Nicolas Küchler*, Alexander Viand, Hossein Shafagh, Anwar Hithnawi
USENIX OSDI 2021. Online.
SoK: Fully Homomorphic Encryption Compilers. Paper Github Website
Alexander Viand, Patrick Jattke, Anwar Hithnawi
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2021. Online.
Droplet: Decentralized Authorization and Access Control for Encrypted Data Streams. Paper Slides Github Website Video
Hossein Shafagh, Lukas Burkhalter, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Anwar Hithnawi
USENIX Security Symposium 2020. Online.
TimeCrypt: Encrypted Data Stream Processing at Scale with Cryptographic Access Control. Paper Slides Github Website Video
Lukas Burkhalter, Anwar Hithnawi, Alexander Viand, Hossein Shafagh, Sylvia Ratnasamy
USENIX NSDI 2020. Santa Clara, California, USA.
Secure Sharing of Partially Homomorphic Encrypted IoT Data. Paper
Hossein Shafagh, Anwar Hithnawi, ALukas Burkhalter, Pascal Fischli, Simon Duquennoy
ACM SenSys 2017. Delft, Netherlands.
CrossZig: Combating Cross-Technology Interference in Low-power Wireless Networks. Paper
Anwar Hithnawi, Su Li, Hossein Shafagh, James Gross, Simon Duquennoy
ACM IPSN 2016. Vienna, Austria.
Talos: Encrypted Query Processing for the Internet of Things. Paper
Hossein Shafagh, Anwar Hithnawi, Andreas Dröscher, Simon Duquennoy, Wen Hu
ACM SenSys 2015. Seoul, South Korea.
TIIM: Technology-Independent Interference Mitigation for Low-power Wireless Networks. Paper
Anwar Hithnawi, Hossein Shafagh, Simon Duquennoy
ACM IPSN 2015. Seattle, WA, USA.