Vecna

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This page provides a summary of my academic work at the University of Waterloo.

About Me

I'm a PhD student doing privacy-related computer science research at the University of Waterloo. I am part of the Cryptography, Security, and Privacy research group, and my supervisor is Ian Goldberg.

What to Call Me

• Name: Vecna
• Pronouns: they/them
• Gendered terms: no

Research

I work on privacy and anti-censorship research. I worked on cryptocurrency-related work as an undergrad, but I am not a cryptocurrency fan, and I don't do research in that area anymore.

Preprints

• Random (Un)rounding : Vulnerabilities in Discrete Attribute Disclosure in the 2021 Canadian Census

Chris West, Ivy Vecna, Raiyan Chowdhury. arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.13859, July 2023.

Theses

• Troll Patrol: Detecting Blocked Tor Bridges

Master of Mathematics Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2024.

Teaching Assistantships

(at the University of Waterloo, in ascending order by course number)

• CS 458/658: Computer Security and Privacy (F22)
• CS 459/698: Privacy, Cryptography, Network and Data Security (W23, W24, W25 (upcoming))
• CS 489/698: Foundations of Modern Cryptography (F23)
• CS 798: Privacy in Computation and Communication (S24)

Contact

• Email: vvecna@uwaterloo.ca (two v's)
• Fediverse: @vecna@ftp.crysp.org
• Signal: vecna.1337