Esra Günsay

About Me

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, supervised by Dr. Lucjan Hanzlik. Prior to joining CISPA, I received my Master’s degree in Cryptography from the Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey, where I also served as a Research Assistant. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, which I completed summa cum laude.

Research Interests

My academic interests include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

• Provable Security
• Cryptographic Analysis of Protocols
• Key Exchange and Secure Messaging

News

• I’ll be presenting my first PhD project at Eurocrypt 2026!
• I’ll be visiting Prof. Mang Zhao at Wuhan University between March 09 and April 17, 2026.

Publications

Academic Activities

Service (Sub-Reviewer)

• Usenix Security 2026
• IEEE S&P 2026
• ACM CCS 2025

Teaching (Teaching Assistant)

• IAM 502 Graduate Course of Stream Ciphers at METU, Spring 2023
• MAT 119 Calculus with Analytic Geometry at METU, Fall 2022
• IAM 504 Graduate Course of Public Key Cryptography at METU, Spring 2022
• IAM 501 Graduate Course of Introduction to Cryptography at METU, Fall 2020-2021
• IAM 512 Graduate Course Block Ciphers at METU, Spring 2020-2021

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