Laura Hetz

about me

Hi, I’m Laura Hetz, a doctoral student at ETH Zürich with the Applied Cryptography group. My research interests lie in the design, evaluation, and implementation of privacy-enhancing technologies, and anonymous communication systems.

Before, I worked on unbalanced private set intersection in the context of private mobile contact discovery with Christian Weinert and Thomas Schneider at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

publications

TAPIR: A Two-Server Authenticated PIR Scheme with Preprocessing Francesca Falzon, Laura Hetz, Annamira O’Toole. To appear at ACNS’26

Sabot: Efficient and Strongly Anonymous Bootstrapping of Communication Channels Christoph Coijanovic, Laura Hetz, Kenneth G. Paterson, and Thorsten Strufe. ACM CCS’25

Scaling Mobile Private Contact Discovery to Billions of Users Laura Hetz, Thomas Schneider, and Christian Weinert. ESORICS’23

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work & teaching experience

education