CyLab Seminar: Abhi Shelat

March 30, 2026

12:00 p.m. ET

Zoom or Hamburg Hall, room A301

Abhi Shelat

*Please note: this CyLab seminar is open only to partners and Carnegie Mellon University faculty, students, and staff.

Speaker:
Abhi Shelat
Professor
Northeastern University

Talk Title:
Zero knowledge proofs in your wallet

Abstract:
I'll discuss the journey to get zero-knowledge proof protocols used to convey your private identity information when websites ask for it. Specifically, Google wallet now supports zk presentation for mobile driver license IDs. I'll discuss the problem, how we made the technical choices, and what new ideas we needed to get proofs for legacy ID formats to work on the phone.

Bio:
Shelat is a professor at Northeastern University and an engineer at Google for this project.

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