Blake Holman

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I’m Blake, a third-year PhD student in computer science at Purdue University!

I am broadly interested in cryptography and quantum computation, and I’m more specifically interested in time-space/query-space trade-offs in these settings. At Purdue, my research is on the classical and post-quantum security of memory-hard functions with my advisor Jeremiah Blocki. I intern in the Quantum Algorithms and Applications Collaboratory (QuAAC) at Sandia National Laboratories, where I’m studying the quantum query complexity of various graph problems.

I’m grateful to be supported by the Ross Fellowship at Purdue for the 2021-2022 academic year, the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship from Fall 2022, and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRF) from Fall 2023.

Prior to joining Purdue, I studied computer science and mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin as a Ronald E. McNair Scholar. At UT I worked with Greg Plaxton on three-dimensional stable marriage and conducted research as a part of the Building-Wide Intelligence Project with Justin Hart.

news

May 31, 2023 I recieved the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRF)!
Apr 10, 2023 I’m presenting at Midwest Crypto Day!
Nov 1, 2022 The preliminary work from my internship at Sandia Labs is up!
Aug 25, 2022 I gave a talk at CRYPTO 2022!
May 4, 2022 I presented my work on sustained space and cumulative memory tradoffs at the Purdue Theory Reading Group!
Apr 21, 2022 I was awarded the Ford Foundation Fellowship!
Mar 28, 2022 Gave a poster presentation at the CERIAS Security Symposium!

selected publications

  1. The Impact of Reversibility on Parallel Pebbling
    Blocki, Jeremiah,  Holman, Blake, and Lee, Seunghoon
    2024
  2. The Parallel Reversible Pebbling Game: Analyzing the Post-Quantum Security of iMHFs
    Blocki, Jeremiah,  Holman, Blake, and Lee, Seunghoon
    In TCC 2022
  3. Sustained Space and Cumulative Complexity Trade-offs for Data-Dependent Memory-Hard Functions
    Blocki, Jeremiah, and Holman, Blake
    In CRYPTO 2022