Song Parodies

I have made several humorous cryptography- and academia-themed musical parodies for the Crypto Rump Session. The Crypto Rump Session is an informal series of short talks at the Crypto conference, featuring announcements, research results, and a variety of humorous presentations.

Why Indistinguishability Obfuscation is not (yet) Practically Efficient

Crypto 2024 Rump Session iO Video 🎥Live Recording 🎥Crypto Recording

Lyrics by: Alexis Korb and Allison Bishop
Performed with: Eli Jaffe, Surya Mathialagan, Rohit Nema, Amit Sahai
Parody of: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from Mary Poppins

I'm Reject

Crypto 2023 Rump Session I'm Reject Video 🎥Music Video 🎥Live Recording 🎥Crypto Recording

Lyrics by: Alexis Korb and Allison Bishop
Performed with: Eli Goldin, Eysa Lee, Ning Luo, Rohit Nema, Lisa Oakley,
Mark Schultz-Wu, Adam Suhl, Eran Tromer, Qiuhong Anna Wei, Cathie Yun
Parody of: "I'm Just Ken" from the Barbie movie.

Use Big O

Crypto 2022 Rump Session

Unfortunately, there are no good video recordings of this performance. Due to technical difficulties, the Crypto recording is missing the backing music as well as the introductory portion of the talk.

Lyrics by: Alexis Korb
Parody of: "Let It Go" from Frozen.

Miniatures

In my free time, I enjoy lots of nerdy hobbies such as Dungeons and Dragons, reading, video games, and board games. I also make miniatures for Dungeons and Dragons out of polymer clay.

Adventuring parties:

Party 1 Party 2
Party 3

The elemental squad so far:

Elementals

A good-aligned Death Knight
(it's a long story) that we lovingly named Maximum Bloodbath:

Maximum Bloodbath

A goblin NPC named Grax
that the party adopted
just because:

Grax

Video Games

Before deciding to pursue a PhD, I wanted to be a video game developer and participated in several game jams.

Ghost in the Machine

A Game in 56 Hours for Ludum Dare 39 - Theme: Running out of Power Ghost in the Machine Image ▶️Play Game 🔗Ludum Dare Page 🔗Github

Art: Matt Hansen
Programming: Alexis Korb
Programming: Brian Macintosh
Level Design/Art: Minnie Wu
Sound Design: Justin Britch
(Music used from NGXmusical)

I am the Destroyer

A Game in 72 Hours for Ludum Dare 36 - Theme: Ancient Technology I am the Destroyer Image ▶️Play Game 🔗Github

Good Art: Kellen Pocock
Design/Programming/Additional Art: Alexis Korb
Programming/Production/Additional Art: Brian Macintosh
(Music used from NGXmusical)