About The Workshop
Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) has matured from a theoretical construct into a practical cryptographic tool, enabling multiple parties to jointly compute over private data without revealing their inputs. However, real-world deployment of MPC still faces significant challenges in scalability, usability, system integration, and performance trade-offs. This workshop brings together researchers, system builders, and industry practitioners who are pioneering the use of MPC in real-world systems, especially in domains such as finance, healthcare, IoT, and secure AI. The goal is to foster dialogue, share lessons, and identify the technical, organizational, and policy hurdles in deploying privacy-preserving computation at scale.
Organizers
This workshop is organized by
Xingliang Yuan
The University of Melbourne
Email: xingliang.yuan [at] unimelb.edu.au
Website: https://xyuancs.github.io/
Maggie Liu
RMIT University
Email: xiaoning.liu [at] rmit.edu.au
Website: https://maggichk.github.io/
Invited Speakers
Marcel Keller, CSIRO's Data61
Talk Title: MP-SPDZ: A Versatile Framework for Multi-Party Computation
Marcel Keller is a senior research scientist with CSIRO's Data61, a research unit of Australia's national science agency. After completing his PhD with Ivan Damgård at Aarhus University, he spent a few years at the University of Bristol under the supervision of Nigel Smart. There, he started working on an implementation of multi-party computation that eventually would form the basis of MP-SPDZ, an open-source project used by researchers all over the world.
Yan Huang, Indiana University Bloomington
Talk Title: Post-Quantum Transparent zkSNARKs and their Applications
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Zuoxia Yu, University of Wollongong
Talk Title: Lattice-based Sigma Protocol and its Application
Zuoxia Yu is currently an ARC DECRA Fellow at the School of Computing and Information Technology at the University of Wollongong. She earned her PhD degree in 2020 from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her main research interests include privacy-preserving cryptography and lattice-based cryptography.
Rupeng Yang, University of Wollongong
Talk Title: Fully Homomorphic Encryption with Chosen-Ciphertext Security from LWE
Rupeng Yang is a lecturer at the school of computing and information technology at University of Wollongong. Dr Yang's research interests are theoretical and applied cryptography, including lattice-based cryptography, cryptographic watermarking, zero-knowledge proofs, etc. His research works are published on flagship conferences of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, including CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT and ASIACRYPT.
Schedule
| Time (AEST) | Session | Speaker | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:05 | Opening Remark | Xingliang Yuan | |
| 09:05 – 09:50 | Keynote I | Marcel Keller | MP-SPDZ: A Versatile Framework for Multi-Party Computation |
| 09:50 – 10:20 | Invited Talk I | Zuoxia Yu | Lattice-based Sigma Protocol and its Application |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Invited Talk II | Hanwen Feng | title |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Tea Break | ||
| 11:20 - 12:05 | Keynote II | Yan Huang | Post-Quantum Transparent zkSNARKs and their Applications |
| 12:05 - 12:35 | Invited Talk III | Rupeng Yang | Fully Homomorphic Encryption with Chosen-Ciphertext Security from LWE |
| 12:35 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||