Recent News

September 2026

• A paper accepted at NDSS 2027.

August 2026

• I graduated with a PhD from COSIC, KU Leuven, summa cum laude.

March 2026

• A paper accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2026.

February 2026

• Award:
  The paper “When Mixnets Fail: Evaluating, Quantifying, and Mitigating the Impact of Adversarial Nodes in Mix Networks” received the Distinguished Artifact Award at NDSS 2026, San Diego, California.

  

• Two papers accepted in NDSS 2026:

  • “When Mixnets Fail: Evaluating, Quantifying, and Mitigating the Impact of Adversarial Nodes in Mix Networks” at the 33rd Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium, San Diego, California.

  • “OptiMix: Scalable and Distributed Approaches for Latency Optimization in Modern Mixnets” at the 33rd Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium, San Diego, California.

🧾 Poster Presentation

Title: Enhancing Applicability of Mix Networks
Event: KU Leuven ESAT Department — External Advisory Board Meeting
Date: February 5^th, 2026
Link: View Poster (PDF)

December 2025

• Presented Paper:
  “DP-Mix: Differentially Private Routing in Mix Networks” at the 41st ACSAC, Hawaii, December 2025.

August 2025

• Accepted Paper:
  “On Round-Optimal Computational VSS”, IACR Communications in Cryptology 2025.

June 2025

• Award:
  Paper “PARSAN-Mix: Packet-Aware Routing and Shuffling with Additional Noise for Latency Optimization in Mix Networks” received the Best Student Paper Award at ACNS 2025, Munich.

• Two papers accepted in ACNS 2025:

  • “PARSAN-Mix: Packet-Aware Routing and Shuffling with Additional Noise for Latency Optimization in Mix Networks”.

  • “Pre-Constructed Publicly Verifiable Secret Sharing and Applications”.

• Presented Paper:
  “MOCHA: Mixnet Optimization Considering Honest Client Anonymity” at the IH&MMSec’25.

February 2025

• Presented Paper:
  “LAMP: Lightweight Approaches for Latency Minimization in Mixnets with Practical Deployment Considerations” at NDSS 2025, in collaboration with Piyush Kumar Sharma and Claudia Diaz.

October 2024

• Presented Paper:
  “MALARIA: Management of Low-Latency Routing Impact on Mix Network Anonymity” at the NCA’24.

September 2024

• Presented Paper:
  “LARMix++: Latency-Aware Routing in Mix Networks with Free Routes Topology” at the CANS’24.

June 2024

• Presented Paper:
  “CLAM: Client-Aware Routing in Mix Networks” at the IH&MMSec’24.

February 2024

• Presented Paper:
  “LARMix: Latency-Aware Routing in Mix Networks” at NDSS 2024, in collaboration with Piyush Kumar Sharma and Claudia Diaz.