About
I am a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with an appointment in the School of Computing and Data Science. My research focuses on online privacy, network security, and applied cryptography. I also serve as the Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs in ECE.
News
Paper on Ring zkSNARKs accepted at Oakland!
GPU hugeint multiplication accepted at IEEE HPEC
Prezta paper accepted to USENIX Security
Congratulations, Aarushi, Cygnus, and Vaibhav, on completing your senior theses!
Research
Current Projects
Zero-Knowledge Zero Trust
Anonymous Credentials for the Web
Past Projects
- Off-the-Record Messaging
- Refraction Networking
- Sensor Fingerprinting
Selected Publications
See Google Scholar for a full list of publications.
Prezta: Provable Remote Execution of Zero-Trust Authorization using SNARKs
Zhongjing Wei, Osaid Muhammad Ameer, Yupeng Zhang, Nikita Borisov, USENIX Security 2026
ProbFlow: Using Probabilistic Programming in Anonymous Communication Networks
Hussein Darir, Geir Dullerud, Nikita Borisov, NDSS 2023
Detecting AI Trojans Using Meta Neural Analysis
Xiaojun Xu, Qi Wang, Huichen Li, Nikita Borisov, Carl A. Gunter, Bo Li, S&P 2021
Assessing the Privacy Benefits of Domain Name Encryption
Nguyen Phong Hoang, Arian Akhavan Niaki, Nikita Borisov, Phillipa Gill, Michalis Polychronakis, ASIACCS 2020
Running Refraction Networking for Real
Benjamin VanderSloot, Sergey Frolov, Jack Wampler, Sze Chuen Tan, Irv Simpson, Michalis Kallitsis, J. Alex Halderman, Nikita Borisov, Eric Wustrow, PETS 2020
Teaching & Students
Teaching
- Fall 2026: teaching release
- Spring 2026: CS563/ECE524: Advanced Computer Security
Current Students
- Dylen Greenenwald (PhD)
- Vaibhav Mattoo (MS)
Contact
Office Hours
Fall 2026: by appointment
Location
2080 Electrical and Computer Engineering Building (admin office)
460 Coordinated Science Lab (research office)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign