Faculty
| Ran graduated from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1995. Prior to joining BU in 2011, he was at IBM Research, MIT, and Tel Aviv University. His research interests lie in cryptography and system security, with emphasis on the design and analysis of cryptographic protocols and algorithms. | |
| Sharon Goldberg’s research uses tools from theory (cryptography, game-theory, algorithms), and networking (measurement, modeling, and simulation) to solve practical problems in network security. She joined BU in 2010, after receiving her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2009. In 2014 she received two IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prizes, an NSF CAREER Award, and a Sloan Research Fellowship. | |
| Leo Reyzin has worked on providing better alternatives for passwords; on delivering graceful recovery from stolen keys and side channel attacks; and on helping secure the Internet infrastructure. He received his Ph.D. from MIT. He has contributed to the development of cryptography standards, worked as an industry consultant, and received the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award and Boston University’s Neu Family Award for Excellence in Teaching. | |
| Adam Smith is a professor of computer science at Boston University. He obtained his Ph.D. from MIT in 2004, and was a faculty member at Penn State from 2007 to 2017. His research interests lie in data privacy and cryptography, and their connections to machine learning, statistics, information theory, and quantum computing. He received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2009; a Theory of Cryptography Test of Time award in 2016; and the 2017 Gödel Prize. | |
| Nikos Triandopoulos is an adjunct faculty at BU and a research scientist at RSA Labs. His research interests include information security and privacy, network and distributed systems security, and applied cryptography, with a focus on trustworthy computing and cloud security. He received his Ph.D. at Brown University in 2007, specializing in protocols for data authentication. | |
| Mayank Varia’s research interests span theoretical and applied cryptography and their application to problems throughout and beyond computer science. He received a PhD in Mathematics from MIT for his work on cryptographically secure program obfuscation. | |
| Alley Stoughton is applying her background in programming languages and formal methods to the security of systems, especially cryptographic protocols. She joined BU’s Hariri Institute in 2017, and was appointed as a research professor in computer science in 2018. Alley earned her doctorate in computer science from the University of Edinburgh in 1987. |
Mayank Varia
Alley StoughtonPostdocs
| Xiao Wang is a postdoctoral researcher joint between BUSec and MIT. His research interests include multi-party computation and oblivious RAM. He obtained his Ph.D. from UMD and will join Northwestern in 2019 fall | |
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Ran Cohen is a postdoctoral researcher at Boston University and Northeastern University. Ran received his PhD from Bar-Ilan University in 2016. His research interests are in cryptography, with a focus on secure multiparty computation.
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Audra McMillan is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Computer Science at Boston University and the College of Computer Science and Information Sciences at Northeastern University. Her research interests lie primarily in data privacy and statistics. She is interested in developing tools that will allow data analysts, including social scientists and economists, to analyze datasets while ensuring privacy for individuals in the dataset. She received her PhD from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan, and her B.Sc in Mathematics from the University of Sydney.
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Ran Cohen
Audra McMillanGraduate Students
Student |
Interests |
Advisor |
| differential cryptanalysis, cache based side channel attacks, novel attacks against hash functions, RPKI, bitcoin | Sharon Goldberg | |
| networks security, cryptography, implications of deploying new security infrastructures in interdomain routing | Sharon Goldberg | |
| cryptography | Ran Canetti | |
| cryptographic accumulators, efficient secure multi-party computation | Leo Reyzin | |
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Sarah Scheffler |
Mayank Varia | |
| differential privacy, machine learning, adaptive data analysis | Adam Smith | |
| fast private algorithms, approximation, MPC, broad theoretical CS |
Undergraduate Researchers
| Omar Sagga |
| Daniel Gould |
| Ezequiel Gomez |
| Haydn Kennedy |
Past Visitors and Alumni
Faculty Visitors
Visitor |
From |
To |
| Adam Smith (now BU faculty) | 2013 | 2014 |
| Sofya Raskhodnikova (now BU faculty) | 2013 | 2014 |
| Kobbi Nissim | 2014 | 2014 |
Past Postdocs
Postdoc |
From |
To |
Currently… |
| Adam O’Neill | 2011 | 2013 | Professor at UMass Amherst |
| Huijia (Rachel) Lin | 2011 | 2013 | Professor at UCSB |
| Abhishek Jain | 2012 | 2014 | Professor at Johns Hopkins University |
| Foteini Baldimtsi | 2014 | 2016 | Professor at George Mason University |
| Yossi Gilad | 2015 | 2018 | Chief technologist and head of systems research at Algorand |
| Alessandra Scafuro | 2015 | 2017 | Professor at NC State University |
Graduated PhD Students
PhD Student |
Advisor |
Graduation Year |
Currently… |
| Bhavana Kanu |
Leo Reyzin | 2010 | Professor at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) |
| Ben Fuller | Leo Reyzin | 2014 | Professor at UConn |
| Omer Paneth | Ran Canetti | 2015 | Postdoc at MIT |
| Dimitris Papadopoulos | Nikos Triandopoulos | 2016 | Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Davide Prosepio | Sharon Goldberg | 2016 | Professor at University of Southern California |
| Yilei Chen | Ran Canetti, Leo Reyzin | 2018 | Researcher at Visa Research |
Graduated Masters Students
Masters Student |
Advisor |
Graduation Year |
| Jef Guarente | Leo Reyzin, Sharon Goldberg | 2013 |
| Sachin Vasant | Leo Reyzin, Sharon Goldberg | 2014 |
| Yun Sheng | Sharon Goldberg | 2016 |
| Sean Smith | Sharon Goldberg | 2017 |
Graduated Undergraduate Researchers
Undergraduate Researcher |
Advisor |
Graduation Year |
| Kyle Brogle | Leo Reyzin, Sharon Goldberg | 2012 |
| Adam Udi | Sharon Goldberg | 2013 |
| Danny Cooper | Leo Reyzin, Sharon Goldberg | 2014 |
| Anthony Faraco-Hadlock | Sharon Goldberg | 2015 |
| AJ Trainor | Sharon Goldberg | 2016 |
| Alison Kendler | Sharon Goldberg | 2016 |
| Isaac Cohen | Sharon Goldberg | 2016 |
| Erik Brakke | Sharon Goldberg | 2016 |
| Monica Martin | Sharon Goldberg | 2016 |
| Kyle Hogan | Sharon Goldberg | 2016 |
| Ann Ming Samborski | Sharon Goldberg | 2017 |
| Leen Alshenibr | Sharon Goldberg | 2017 |
| Rahul Bazaz | Sharon Goldberg | 2017 |
Other Visitors
Visitor |
From |
To |
Currently… |
| Phillipa Gill | 2010 | 2010 | Professor at UMass Amherst |
| Robert Lychev | 2011 | 2014 | Researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
| Nir Bitanski | 2011 | 2012 | Professor at Tel Aviv University |
| Margarita Vald | 2011 | 2012 | Student at Tel Aviv University |
| Angela Zottarel | 2012 | 2013 | Teacher at ITIS VOLTERRA |