Wenting Zheng

Wenting Zheng

Assistant Professor

ORCID 0009-0006-1061-3419

Office

9015 Gates and Hillman Centers

Email

Department

Computer Science Department

Administrative Support

Emi Perdan

Research Areas

Research Interests

     Cryptography

Advisees

Edward Chen

Siddharth Jayashankar

Qi Pang

Matan Shtepel

Andrew Park

Freya Liu

Anna Woo

CSD Courses Taught

15440 - Fall, 2025

15640 - Fall, 2025

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.