Yiping Ma

Hi! I am a Ph.D. student studying computer science at University of Pennsylvania, where I'm fortunate to be advised by Prof. Sebastian Angel and Prof. Tal Rabin. I'm broadly interested in cryptography, security and privacy, and computer systems. I'm generously supported by a Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship.

Prior to UPenn, I completed my B.S. in 2020 at Peking University, where I graduated from Turing Class honors program.

Research Papers

Flamingo: Multi-Round Single-Server Secure Aggregation with Applications to Private Federated Learning

Yiping Ma, Jess Woods, Sebastian Angel, Antigoni Polychroniadou, and Tal Rabin

IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2023

Addax: A fast, private, and accountable ad exchange infrastructure

Ke Zhong, Yiping Ma, Yifeng Mao, and Sebastian Angel

NSDI 2023 | paper

Ibex: Privacy-preserving ad conversion tracking and bidding

Ke Zhong, Yiping Ma, and Sebastian Angel

CCS 2022 | paper | code

Incremental Offline/Online PIR

Yiping Ma, Ke Zhong, Tal Rabin, and Sebastian Angel

USENIX Security 2022 | paper | code

Mycelium: Large-Scale Distributed Graph Queries with Differential Privacy

Edo Roth, Karan Newatia, Yiping Ma, Ke Zhong, Sebastian Angel, and Andreas Haeberlen

SOSP 2021 | paper

PEGASUS: Bridging Polynomial and Non-polynomial Evaluations in Homomorphic Encryption

Wen-jie Lu, Zhicong Huang, Cheng Hong, Yiping Ma, and Hunter Qu

IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2021 | paper | code

Ultrafast homomorphic encryption models enable secure outsourcing of genotype imputation

Miran Kim, Arif Ozgun Harmanci, Jean-Philippe Bossuat, Sergiu Carpov, Jung Hee Cheon, Ilaria Chillotti, Wonhee Cho, David Froelicher, Nicolas Gama, Mariya Georgieva, Seungwan Hong, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Duhyeong Kim, Kristin Lauter, Yiping Ma, Lucila Ohno-Machado, Heidi Sofia, Yongha Son, Yongsoo Song, Juan Troncoso-Pastoriza, Xiaoqian Jiang

Cell Systems, Cell Press, 2021 | paper | code

Talks

"Single-Server Private Information Retrieval in the Shuffle Model"
NY CryptoDay, New York, NY, October 2022

"Incremental Offline/Online PIR"
    AlgoCRYPT Seminar, J.P. Morgan, NY, March 2023
    UPenn Theory Seminar, Philadelphia, PA, February 2023
    UPenn Distributed Systems Seminar, Philadelphia, PA, November 2022
    MIT Security Seminar, Boston, MA, November 2022
    USENIX Security Symposium, Boston, MA, August 2022 [slides, video]
    Technion Crypto Seminar, Haifa, Israel, May 2022
    FACT Seminar, Herzliya, Israel, April 2022

Teaching

TA at UPenn: Cryptography

TA at Peking University: Analysis of Algorithms, Discrete Mathematics

Internships and Visits

Technion, Israel, Spring 2022
Hosted by Prof. Yuval Ishai

Gemini Lab, Alibaba, China, Summer 2020
Hosted by Dr. Cheng Hong

EPFL, Switzerland, Summer 2019
Hosted by Prof. Jean-Pierre Hubaux

Selected Awards

Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship, 2022

NIGMS Award for iDASH Genome Privacy & Security Competition, 2019 (with EPFL team), 2020 (with Alibaba team)

Academic Excellence Award, Peking University, 2019

Mount Everest Scholarship, First Honors, Peking University, 2018