Anna Lysyanskaya

Anna Lysyanskaya
Анна Лисянська
Born
Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Kyiv, Ukraine)
OccupationCryptographer

Anna A. Lysyanskaya[a] is a 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]

Early life and education

Lysyanskaya grew up in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now 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.[4] Her dissertation, Signature Schemes and Applications to Cryptographic Protocol Design, was supervised by Ron Rivest.[5]

Career

After completing her doctorate, Lysyanskaya joined the Brown University faculty in 2002.[4] 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 three additional three-year terms in 2015, 2018 and 2021.[6] She served on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) through 2021.[7]

She was awarded the Levchin Prize in 2024 “for the development of efficient Anonymous Credentials”.[8]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Ukrainian: Анна А. Лисянська, romanized: Anna A. Lysianska

References

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ a b Maran, Meredith (September 13, 2017), "Are the Hackers Winning?", Brown Alumni Magazine
  3. ^ a b Polhemus, Jesse (June 22, 2023), "Anna Lysyanskaya Receives A Named Chair", Brown CS News, Brown University Computer Science, retrieved 2024-01-27
  4. ^ a b "Anna Lysyanskaya, Professor of Computer Science", Researchers@Brown, Brown University, retrieved 2018-11-09
  5. ^ Anna Lysyanskaya at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ Board of directors, International Association for Cryptologic Research, retrieved 2018-11-09
  7. ^ https://icerm.brown.edu/about/nsf/reports/2020-2021-Annual-Report.pdf ICERM Annual Report May 1, 2020 – April 30, 2021
  8. ^ "The Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography". Real World Crypto Symposium. International Association for Cryptologic Research. Retrieved 9 April 2024.