Xinran Cai

First-year PhD Student in Computer Science
Boston University

I am a first-year PhD student in Computer Science at Boston University, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Ran Canetti.

Before joining BU, I was an undergraduate student in the Yao Class at Tsinghua University.

My research interests are in cryptography, with a particular focus on secure computation.

Publications

Communication-Efficient Private Join and Compute over Distributed Input Sets

Yunqing Sun, Xinran Cai, Hanlin Liu, Xiao Wang, and Wei Dong

ACM CCS 2026