I am a Research Scientist at Facebook Novi (based in Menlo Park, CA, USA). I received my PhD in cryptography from Stanford University in 2017 supervised by Prof. Dan Boneh. I hold MSc from University of the Russian Academy of Scientists in Computational Complexity and BSc from St.Petersburg Polytechnic University with thesis in Computer Algebra. I work for Novi since Feb 2019.
Interests
Cryptography: lattice-based, attribute-based, post-quantum, multi-party computation, privacy-preserving machine learning, pairing-based, public-key cryptography, provable security
Latest Publications
AFT - October 23, 2020
Winkle: Foiling Long-Range Attacks in Proof-of-Stake Systems
Sarah Azouvi, George Danezis, Valeria Nikolaenko
SSR - October 22, 2020
Taming the many EdDSAs
Kostas Chalkias, François Garillot, Valeria Nikolaenko
ZKProof - April 22, 2020
Distributed Auditing Proofs of Liabilities
Kostas Chalkias, Kevin Lewi, Payman Mohassel, Valeria Nikolaenko