Julia Len
Incoming Assistant Professor
UNC Chapel Hill
I am a METEOR postdoc at MIT working with Henry Corrigan-Gibbs. Starting in July 2025, I will be an assistant professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
My research interests are broadly in applied cryptography and computer security, with recent topics focusing on interoperable end-to-end encrypted messaging, abuse prevention for secure messaging, and authenticated encryption. See my research page for more information.
History
I completed my Ph.D. in computer science at Cornell University, where I was advised by Tom Ristenpart. I graduated from UC San Diego in June 2018 with a B.S. in Computer Science, where I was fortunate to work with Mihir Bellare. During my Ph.D., I was also fortunate to intern at Zoom with Antonio Marcedone and at Microsoft Research Redmond with Esha Ghosh and Melissa Chase.
Service
I was or am a program committee member for: IEEE S&P 2026, USENIX Security 2025, CATS 2023.