Wenting Zheng Assistant Professor Office 9015 Gates and Hillman Centers Email wenting@cmu.edu Department Computer Science Department Administrative Support Person Emi Perdan Research Interests Security Systems Cryptography Advisees Edward Chen Siddharth Jayashankar Qi Pang Matan Shtepel CSD Courses Taught 15440 - Fall, 2025 15640 - Fall, 2025 15793 - Spring, 2025 15440 - Fall, 2024 15640 - Fall, 2024 15793 - Spring, 2024 Biography Previously, I was a Ph.D. student in the UC Berkeley RISE Lab, where I was co-advised by Raluca Ada Popa and Ion Stoica. I received my bachelor and M.Eng. degrees at MIT. I have been very fortunate to work with a number of wonderful people. During my M.Eng., I was advised by Barbara Liskov and worked with Eddie Kohler and Sam Madden.I was also a co-founder and an organizer for DARE, a diversity-focused program for matching undergraduates to research opportunities. I am broadly interested in system security and applied cryptography. Recently, I've been fascinated with building practical systems for secure outsourced computation in the cloud, and secure collaborative computation among mutually distrusting parties. I believe that a combination of systems and advanced cryptography can not only make existing applications more secure, but also enable new applications.
