Samuel Judson

samuel.judson@yale.edu | sam@sjudson.com

I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Yale University, advised by Ruzica Piskac. I work on finding new ways to use formal methods and applied cryptography to further principled governance of technology. In practice, my research focuses on privacy preserving formal methods as well as on accountability for algorithmic decision making through the descriptive application of rigorous program analysis.

I am funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) through a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. I received my undergraduate degree from Marlboro College, advised by Jim Mahoney and Matt Ollis, where my Plan of Concentration focused on cryptographic authentication.

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Publications, Preprints, and Theses

(*equal contribution)

1.    Ou: Automating the Parallelization of Zero-Knowledge Protocols
   

   Yuyang Sang*, Ning Luo*, Samuel Judson, Ben Chaimberg, Timos Antonopoulos, Xiao Wang,

   
   

        Ruzica Piskac, and Zhong Shao

   
   

   CCS, 2023.

   
   

      also Cryptology ePrint Archive Report 2023/657 [eprint] [pdf]

2.    'Put the Car on the Stand': SMT-based Oracles for Investigating Decisions
   

   Samuel Judson, Matthew Elacqua, Filip Cano Córdoba, Timos Antonopoulos, Bettina Könighofer,

   
   

        Scott J. Shapiro, and Ruzica Piskac

   
   

   Under Submission.

   
   

      also arXiv.2305.05731, 2023. [arxiv] [pdf]

3.    Analyzing Intentional Behavior in Autonomous Agents Under Uncertainty
   

   Filip Cano Córdoba, Samuel Judson, Timos Antonopoulos, Katrine Bjørner, Nicholas Shoemaker,

   
   

        Scott J. Shapiro, Ruzica Piskac, and Bettina Könighofer

   
   

   IJCAI, 2023.

4.    On Heuristic Models, Assumptions, and Parameters
   

   Samuel Judson and Joan Feigenbaum

   
   

   Under Submission.

   
   

      also arXiv.2201.07413, 2022. [arxiv] [pdf]

5.    ppSAT: Towards Two-Party Private SAT Solving [usenix] [pdf]
   

   Ning Luo, Samuel Judson, Timos Antonopoulos, Ruzica Piskac, and Xiao Wang

   
   

   USENIX Security, 2022.

   
   

      also Cryptology ePrint Archive Report 2021/1584 [eprint]

6.    Privacy Preserving CTL Model Checking through Oblivious Graph Algorithms [acm dl] [pdf]
   

   Samuel Judson, Ning Luo, Timos Antonopoulos, and Ruzica Piskac

   
   

   WPES@CCS, 2020.

7.    Authentication: Techniques and Theory [pdf]
   

   Samuel Judson

   
   

   Marlboro College Plan of Concentration (Undergraduate Thesis), 2016.