Esha Garg

MS Student in EECS · UC Berkeley

About

I am a 5th year MS student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, working with Prof. Sanjam Garg. My research focuses on cryptography—both theoretical constructions that teach us about the nature of the world and real-world deployed protocols that protect people.

I completed my BA in Computer Science at UC Berkeley in December 2024, graduating with Distinction in General Scholarship and a 3.9 GPA.

Cryptography Anonymous Credentials Threshold Signatures Complexity Theory

Publications

Threshold Anonymous Credentials with Silent Setup

Preshtha Garg, Sanjam Garg, Guru-Vamsi Policharla, and Bhaskar Roberts

Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2025. Submitted to IEEE S&P 2026.

First construction of issuer-hiding anonymous credentials with constant-sized showing, threshold issuance, and non-interactive setup, built on threshold structure-preserving signatures with silent setup.

Research Experience

Research Apprentice

UC Berkeley · Prof. Sanjam Garg · Aug 2024 – Present

Building threshold anonymous credentials with silent-setup. Constructed and proved security for threshold structure-preserving signatures in the generic group model. Currently working on new security definitions for TLS 1.3 in the UC framework.

Research Apprentice

International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) · Dr. Collin Baker · Sep – Dec 2022

Built backend prototype for Frame Game, a serious game for semantic annotation collection, with integration to the FrameNet linguistic database.

Education

M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

University of California, Berkeley · Aug 2025 – Dec 2026

B.A. in Computer Science

University of California, Berkeley · Aug 2021 – Dec 2024

GPA: 3.9/4.0 · Dean's List · Distinction in General Scholarship

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, CS 164: Compilers and Programming Languages

UC Berkeley · Fall 2025

Reader, CS 170: Algorithms

UC Berkeley · Fall 2023