Anwar Hithnawi
I am an Ambizione research fellow and a research group leader at ETH Zurich, where I lead the Privacy Preserving Systems 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. For more information on my current research, please visit the PPS research lab page.
Students:
Doctoral
- Lukas Burkhalter (🏅 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Award)
- Alexander Viand
- Nicolas Küchler
- Hidde Lycklama
Master’s and Undergraduate
- Christian Knabenhans
- Emanuel Opel
- Miro Haller
- Gyorgy Rethy
Former Master’s and Undergraduate
- Marko Mihajlovic (→ Ph.D. student at ETH Zurich)
- 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 - 🏅 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)
- Yonathan Fisseha (→ Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan)
Honors & Awards:
- Rising Stars in EECS 2021.
- Facebook Research Award ($ 100k).
- Semiconductor Research Corporation Grant ($ 270k).
- ETH Research Grant ($ 240k).
- SNF Ambizione Grant ($ 1 million).
- SNF Postdoctoral Fellowship.
- Google Anita Borg Scholarship.
- DAAD Scholarship for Master's Studies.
- Birzeit University Merit Scholarship.
Selected Recent Talks:
- Systems Designs for End-to-End Privacy. Meta Reality Labs
- Cryptographic Enforcement of End-to-End Data Privacy. Brown University, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Compiler Design for Fully Homomorphic Encryption. Intel's Crypto Frontier Center
- TimeCrypt: Encrypted Data Stream Processing at Scale with Cryptographic Access. Intel, VMware, UC Berkeley
- Droplet: Decentralized Authorization and Access Control for Encrypted Data Streams. UC Berkeley
Selected Publications:
HECO: Automatic Code Optimizations for Efficient Fully Homomorphic Encryption. Paper Github
Alexander Viand, Patrick Jattke, Miro Haller, Anwar Hithnawi
arXiv preprint, arXiv:2202.01649
RoFL: Attestable Robustness for Secure Federated Learning Paper Github
Lukas Burkhalter*, Hidde Lycklama*, Alexander Viand, Nicolas Küchler, Anwar Hithnawi
arXiv preprint, arXiv:2107.03311
Zeph: Cryptographic Enforcement of End-to-End Data Privacy. Paper Slides Github Video
Lukas Burkhalter*, Nicolas Küchler*, Alexander Viand, Hossein Shafagh, Anwar Hithnawi
USENIX OSDI 2021.
SoK: Fully Homomorphic Encryption Compilers. Paper Slides Github Website Video
Alexander Viand, Patrick Jattke, Anwar Hithnawi
IEEE Security and Privacy (Oakland) 2021.
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 2020.
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.
Secure Sharing of Partially Homomorphic Encrypted IoT Data. Paper
Hossein Shafagh, Anwar Hithnawi, Lukas Burkhalter, Pascal Fischli, Simon Duquennoy
ACM SenSys 2017.
CrossZig: Combating Cross-Technology Interference in Low-power Wireless Networks. Paper
Anwar Hithnawi, Su Li, Hossein Shafagh, James Gross, Simon Duquennoy
ACM IPSN 2016.
Talos: Encrypted Query Processing for the Internet of Things. Paper
Hossein Shafagh, Anwar Hithnawi, Andreas Dröscher, Simon Duquennoy, Wen Hu
ACM SenSys 2015.
TIIM: Technology-Independent Interference Mitigation for Low-power Wireless Networks. Paper
Anwar Hithnawi, Hossein Shafagh, Simon Duquennoy
ACM IPSN 2015.