About Me

I am a postdoc researcher at CISPA, hosted by Doreen Riepel. Previously, I was a postdoc at both Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) and Purdue University (2023-2025), hosted by Vassilis Zikas. I received my doctoral degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2023, under the supervision of Shengli Liu. Prior to that, I obtained my master's and bachelor's degrees from Sun Yat-Sen University in 2018 and 2016, respectively, under the supervision by Fangguo Zhang.

I am interested in cryptography and security in general. During my PhD my research mainly focuses on tight security. Currently I am working on advanced signature schemes, blockchain and MPC.


Latest News

  • (June 2025) Glad to join CISPA.

  • (Apr. 2025) I write a blog for my 40k hiking at Grand Canyon (during spring break).

  • (Mar. 2025) I finished Spartan Beast Race (21k, 30 obstacles). See my blog here.

  • (Dec. 2024) Glad to join the PC of Africacrypt 2025. Thanks for inviting me!

  • (Nov. 2024) Congratulations! I regained the skill of backflip (后空翻) and had a breakthrough on frontflip (前空翻). See backflip and frontflip for the videos ^o^.

  • (Sept. 2024) Congratulations! I got the skill of side flip with a twist (侧空翻转体). See here for the video ^o^.

  • (Sept. 2024) Glad to join the PC of FC 2025 and PKC 2025. Thanks for inviting me!

  • (Aug. 2024) I am very glad to join Georgia Institute of Technology as a postdoc researcher, and start my new life in Atlanta (and also Purdue in West Lafayette :D).

  • (Aug. 2024) I created a log to record my exercise. Inspired by the Paris Olympics 2024, I hope this log will help me stay youthful, energetic, passionful, and always hold a hope to the life. Faster, higher, stronger. Keep up the good work, and may your journal inspire you to reach new heights!

  • (Dec. 2023) I added a part of google map (see below) to record my footprints over the world.

  • (Nov. 2023) I won the 2023 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of Chinese Association for Cryptologic Research (CACR).

  • (Sept. 2023) Congratulations! I have re-unlocked Muscle Ups (双力臂) since 2018. See here for the video ^o^.


Preprints

  • A Unified Treatment of Anamorphic Encryption
    Wonseok Choi, Daniel Collins, Xiangyu Liu, Vassilis Zikas
    [ePrint]

  • K-Linkable Ring Signatures and Applications in Generalized Voting
    Wonseok Choi, Xiangyu Liu, Lirong Xia, Vassilis Zikas
    [ePrint]

  • CVICA: Coordinated Vehicle Infrastructure Cryptography Architecture with Fine-Grained Access Control
    Xiangyu Liu, Shiqi Ou
    (to appear)

  • Blockchain Governance via Sharp Anonymous Multisignatures
    Wonseok Choi, Xiangyu Liu, Vassilis Zikas
    [ePrint]

Publications

  • Universal Adaptor Signatures from Blackbox Multi-Party Computation
    Michele Ciampi, Xiangyu Liu, Ioannis Tzannetos, Vassilis Zikas
    CT-RSA 2025 (to appear) [ePrint]

  • Adaptor Signatures: New Security Definition and A Generic Construction for NP Relations
    Xiangyu Liu, Ioannis Tzannetos, Vassilis Zikas
    ASIACRYPT 2024 [conference version] [ePrint] [slides]

  • Fine-grained Verifier NIZK and Its Applications
    Xiangyu Liu, Shengli Liu, Shuai Han, Dawu Gu
    PKC 2023 [conference version] [slides]

  • EKE Meets Tight Security in the Universally Composable Framework
    Xiangyu Liu, Shengli Liu, Shuai Han, Dawu Gu
    PKC 2023 [conference version] [eprint] [slides]

  • Tightly CCA-Secure Inner Product Functional Encryption Scheme
    Xiangyu Liu, Shengli Liu, Dawu Gu
    Theoretical Computer Science 2022 [journal version]

  • Two-Pass Authenticated Key Exchange with Explicit Authentication and Tight Security
    Xiangyu Liu, Shengli Liu, Dawu Gu, Jian Weng
    ASIACRYPT 2020 [conference version] [eprint] [slides]

  • Tightly Secure Chameleon Hash Functions in the Multi-User Setting and Their Applications
    Xiangyu Liu, Shengli Liu, Dawu Gu
    ACISP 2020 [conference version] [eprint] [slides]

  • Tightly Secure Identity-Based Signature Scheme
    Xiangyu Liu, Shengli Liu, Dawu Gu
    Journal of Cryptologic Research, 2021

  • A Dynamic Searchable Encryption Scheme on Cloud Storage with Multi-level Access
    Xiangyu Liu, Huige Li, Fangguo Zhang
    Journal of Cryptologic Research, 2019


Adademic Service

  • Program Committee Member:
    Africacrypt 2025, FC 2025, PKC 2025.

  • Conference External Reviewer:
    ASIACRYPT 2024, ISC 2024, CRYPTO 2024, EUROCRYPT 2023, ASIACRYPT 2022, EUROCRYPT 2022, PKC 2022, APKC 2022, ICDCS 2022, APKC 2021, Inscrypt 2021, ProvSec 2021, ACISP 2020, ProvSec 2020.

  • Journal External Reviewer:
    The Computer Journal, Computer Standards & Interfaces, Internet of Things, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS).


Hobbies and Interests

I am interested in all kinds of sports like wushu (martial arts), judo, free running, gymnastics, climbing, hiking, badminton, table tennis, etc. And one of my dreams is, to perform a flip (空翻) when I am 80 years old.

Sometimes I play the flute, though I am musically challenged to be honest. Hope you never have to suffer through my singing.

I am thinking about to upload my sport videos into Bilibili/Youtube? Hope you will see them very soon...


My Footprints

I enjoy adventure and have a dream of traveling around the world. I hope to keep walking and continuously explore this vast world. I record my footprints here.


PS: Yahoo is my English name. As for why I chose this name, it was probably just an inspiration during my first English class in Hefei No.1 High School in 2009. Hope I won't be a real "Yahoo" ------ irrational, filthy, and savage beings ------ as depicted in Gulliver's Travels.


Last updated: June 2025

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Xiangyu Liu

刘 翔宇 (Yahoo)

CISPA
Email:

xiangyu1994liu@gmail.com
xiangyu.liu@cispa.de
xliu3028@gatech.edu (expired)
liu3894@purdue.edu (expired)
xiangyu_liu@sjtu.edu.cn (expired)
liuxy55@mail2.sysu.edu.cn (expired)