Anna Lysyanskaya Associate Professor of Computer Science Brown University Box 1910 Providence, RI 02912 (401) 863-7600  *  anna at cs.brown.edu

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I am an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Brown University.  I joined in Fall 2002.  My research is mainly in cryptography. Prior to joining Brown, I was a Ph.D. student at the Crypto group at MIT, which is part of the Theory of Computation group. My PhD thesis is about signature schemes and secure protocols. My advisor was Ron Rivest. Summer of 2001: IBM T.J.Watson Research Lab, Cryptography Research Group. Summers of 1999 and 2000: IBM Zurich Research Lab, Network Security and Cryptography Group. 1997: Graduate Research Program for Women, Lucent Technologies. My mentor there was Peter Winkler, at the time, the Head of the Fundamental Math Group, in the Math Center, in Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. Undergraduate: Smith College Computer Science Department (advisor: Joseph O'Rourke) and Mathematics Department (advisor: Phyllis Cassidy).