I earned my PhD in math in 2017 from Johns Hopkins, where I studied algebraic geometry. I was advised by Steven Zucker and Caterina Consani.
I worked for a few years as a cryptographer, focusing on zero-knowledge proofs. Now, I'm doing math again.
Publications
Algebraic Geometry
Diamond, B. E. (2026). Hodge structures in sextic fourfolds equipped with an involution. preprint. (Submitted.)
Diamond, B. E. (2025). On the integral cohomology of Fano varieties of linear subspaces. preprint. (Accepted, modulo minor revision, to Mathematische Annalen.)
Diamond, B. E. (2018). Smooth surfaces in smooth fourfolds with vanishing first Chern class. Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 225(5), 1164–1188. article, preprint.
Cryptography & Discrete Math
Diamond, B. E. & Gruen, A. (2026). On the distribution of the distances of random words. In: Heninger, N. and Rosulek, M. (eds) Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2026.conference version, full version.
Diamond, B. E. & Posen, J. (2026). Polylogarithmic proofs for multilinears over binary towers. In: Daemen, J., Thomé, E. (eds) Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2026.conference version, full version.
Diamond, B. E. & Posen, J. (2025). Succinct arguments over towers of binary fields. In: Fehr, S., Fouque, PA. (eds) Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2025.conference version, full version.
Diamond, B. E. & Gruen, A. (2025). Proximity gaps in interleaved codes. Communications in Cryptology, 1(4). open access, full version.
Diamond, B. E. & Posen, J. (2024). Proximity testing with logarithmic randomness. Communications in Cryptology, 1(1). open access, full version.
Diamond, B. E. & Yehudayoff, A. (2022). Explicit exponential lower bounds for exact hyperplane covers. Discrete Mathematics, 345(11), 113114. article, preprint.
Diamond, B. E. (2021). Many-out-of-many proofs and applications to Anonymous Zether. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 1800–1817. article, preprint.
Misc.
Diamond, J. M., Diamond, B. E., Trotta, M. S., Dembny, K., Inati, S K., & Zaghloul, K. A. (2021). Travelling waves reveal a dynamic seizure source in human focal epilepsy. Brain: a journal of neurology, 144(6), 1751–1765. open access.