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Caleb Geren

I was born in Atlanta, GA and grew up for the most part in the American Southwest. Now I reside in Salt Lake City, UT where I perform exciting cryptographic research surrounding zero-knowledge proof systems.

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My Publications

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In Submission

  • Succinct Arguments with (almost) Minimal Time and Space Overheads from Symmetric-Key Primitives
    Alexander R. Block, Caleb Geren, and Pratik Soni
    Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2026/2433 (2026)
    [ePrint] [PDF]

Accepted Papers

  • Blockchain for large language model security and safety: A holistic survey
    Tim Andersen, Amanda Board, Gaby G Dagher, Caleb Geren, Jun Zhuang
    SIGKDD Explorations, vol. 26 (2) 2024.
    [BibTeX] [PDF] 

          @misc{geren2024blockchainlargelanguagemodel,
        title={Blockchain for Large Language Model Security and Safety: A Holistic Survey}, 
        author={Caleb Geren and Amanda Board and Gaby G. Dagher and Tim Andersen and Jun Zhuang},
        year={2024},
        eprint={2407.20181},
        archivePrefix={arXiv},
        primaryClass={cs.CR},
        url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20181}, 
  }

  • Scaling Zero-knowledge to Verifiable Databases
    Benjamin Aulenbach, Victor Carolino, Tal Derei, Caleb Geren, Henry F. Korth, Michael Kaufman, Rishad Islam Shanto, Jonathan Klein
    Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Verifiable Databases 2023 (VDBS), pp. 1 - 9, 2023.
    [BibTeX] [PDF] 

          @inproceedings{10.1145/3595647.3595648,
        author = {Derei, Tal and Aulenbach, Benjamin and Carolino, Victor and Geren, Caleb and Kaufman, Michael and Klein, Jonathan and Islam Shanto, Rishad and Korth, Henry F.},
        title = {Scaling Zero-Knowledge to Verifiable Databases},
        year = {2023},
        isbn = {9798400707759},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3595647.3595648},
        doi = {10.1145/3595647.3595648},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Verifiable Database Systems},
        pages = {1–9},
        numpages = {9},
        keywords = {zero-knowledge, performance, blockchain, PlonK},
        location = {Seattle, WA, USA},
        series = {VDBS '23}
        }