Publications

Conference Papers

• zkPHIRE: A Programmable Accelerator for ZKPs over HIgh-degRee, Expressive Gates
  Alhad Daftardar, Jianqiao Mo, Joey Ah-kiow, Benedikt Bünz, Siddharth Garg, Brandon Reagen
  IEEE Sympoisum on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2026
  [arXiv]

• MTU: The Multifunction Tree Unit in zkSpeed for Accelerating Zero-Knowledge Proofs
  Jianqiao Mo, Alhad Daftardar, Joey Ah-kiow, Kaiyue Guo, Benedikt Bünz, Siddharth Garg, Brandon Reagen
  Best Paper Runner Up, HASP Workshop at MICRO, 2025
  [arXiv]

• Need for zkSpeed: Accelerating HyperPlonk for Zero-Knowledge Proofs
  Alhad Daftardar, Jianqiao Mo, Joey Ah-kiow, Benedikt Bünz, Ramesh Karri, Siddharth Garg, Brandon Reagen
  52nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2025
  [arXiv]

• SZKP: A Scalable Accelerator Architecture for Zero-Knowledge Proofs
  Alhad Daftardar, Brandon Reagen, Siddharth Garg
  33rd International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), 2024
  [arXiv]