Erkan Tairi

Erkan Tairi

Postdoctoral Researcher

UC Berkeley

Biography

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Berkeley, hosted by Sanjam Garg. Prior to this, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at CASCADE Team of ENS Paris, hosted by David Pointcheval. I completed my PhD at Security & Privacy Research Unit of TU Wien under the supervision of Matteo Maffei and Daniel Slamanig. I was fortunate to be awarded an Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship.

Interests
  • Foundations of Cryptography
  • Public-Key Cryptography
  • Applied Cryptography
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science, 2024

    TU Wien

  • MSc in Computer Science, 2018

    Johannes Kepler University

Recent Publications

(2026). Hardness of M-LWE with General Distributions and Applications to Leaky Variants. PKC 2026.

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(2026). On Verifiable Delay Functions from Time-Lock Puzzles. PKC 2026.

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(2026). Impossibility of VDFs in the ROM: The Complete Picture. EUROCRYPT 2026.

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