Anna Lysyanskaya
Anna Lysyanskaya is a Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, which she joined in 2002 after receiving her Ph.D. from MIT. A theme of her academic research is on balancing privacy with accountability, and specifically allowing users to prove that they are authorized even while not revealing any additional information about themselves. Professor Lysyanskaya is a recipient of numerous awards from the National Science Foundation, as well as industry grants from IBM, Google, and Facebook. She has served on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) since 2012, and will serve as co-Chair of the annual Crypto conference in 2023.
Session
An overview of the state-of-the-art of anonymous credentials: What privacy and security guarantees can they provide, and what algorithms and software are available to make them useful in practice?