Anna Lysyanskaya
Anna A. Lysyanskaya is an American cryptographer known for her research on digital signatures and anonymous digital credentials.[1][2] She is the James A. and Julie N. Brown Professor of Computer Science at Brown University.[3] She is a winner of the Levchin prize.[4]
Early life and education[edit]
Lysyanskaya grew up in Kyiv, Ukraine, and came to the US in 1993 to attend Smith College,[2] where she graduated in 1997. She went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1999 and completing her Ph.D. in 2002.[5] Her dissertation, Signature Schemes and Applications to Cryptographic Protocol Design, was supervised by Ron Rivest.[6]
Career[edit]
After completing her doctorate, Lysyanskaya joined the Brown University faculty in 2002.[5] She was given the James A. and Julie N. Brown Professorship in 2023.[3]
She is a member of the board of directors of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, first elected in 2012, and re-elected for two additional three-year terms in 2015 and 2018.[7] She served on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) through 2021.[8]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Savage, Neil (2007), "Anna Lysyanskaya, 31: Securing online privacy", Innovators under 35, MIT Technology Review, archived from the original on 2018-11-11, retrieved 2018-11-10
- ^ a b Maran, Meredith (September 13, 2017), "Are the Hackers Winning?", Brown Alumni Magazine
- ^ a b Polhemus, Jesse (June 22, 2023), "Anna Lysyanskaya Receives A Named Chair", Brown CS News, Brown University Computer Science, retrieved 2024-01-27
- ^ IACR, THE LEVCHIN PRIZE FOR REAL-WORLD CRYPTOGRAPHY. Date Accessed: 25 March 2024
- ^ a b "Anna Lysyanskaya, Professor of Computer Science", Researchers@Brown, Brown University, retrieved 2018-11-09
- ^ Anna Lysyanskaya at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Board of directors, International Association for Cryptologic Research, retrieved 2018-11-09
- ^ https://icerm.brown.edu/about/nsf/reports/2020-2021-Annual-Report.pdf ICERM Annual Report May 1, 2020 – April 30, 2021
External links[edit]
- Home page
- Anna Lysyanskaya publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Living people
- Scientists from Kyiv
- Ukrainian emigrants to the United States
- American computer scientists
- American cryptographers
- Ukrainian women computer scientists
- Ukrainian cryptographers
- Public-key cryptographers
- Smith College alumni
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- Brown University faculty
- American women computer scientists
- 21st-century Ukrainian women scientists
- 21st-century American women scientists
- American women cryptographers