Melissa Chase
Melissa Erin Chase is an American cryptographer known for her research on attribute-based encryption, digital credentials, and information privacy. She works at Microsoft Research.[1]
Education[]
Chase graduated in 2003 from Harvey Mudd College, with a senior thesis in mathematics about the shortest path problem, advised by Ran Libeskind-Hadas.[2] She earned a Ph.D. from Brown University with Anna Lysyanskaya as her doctoral advisor.[1]
Contributions[]
At Microsoft, Chase is one of the developers of Picnic, a digital signature scheme that Microsoft has submitted to the National Institute of Standards and Technology Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization competition.[3][4] Chase spoke about the project as an invited speaker at Real World Crypto 2018 in Zurich.[5]
References[]
- ^ a b Melissa Chase, Microsoft Research, retrieved 2018-11-10
- ^ "Melissa Chase, Harvey Mudd College Mathematics 2003", Senior Thesis archives, Harvey Mudd College Mathematics Department, retrieved 2018-11-10
- ^ Picnic: A Family of Post-Quantum Secure Digital Signature Algorithms, Microsoft Research, retrieved 2018-11-10
- ^ "Round 1 Submissions", Post-Quantum Cryptography, National Institute of Standards and Technology, retrieved 2018-11-10
- ^ Real World Crypto 2018, retrieved 2018-11-10
External links[]
- Melissa Chase publications indexed by Google Scholar
Categories:
- Living people
- American computer scientists
- American cryptographers
- Public-key cryptographers
- Harvey Mudd College alumni
- Brown University alumni
- Women cryptographers