Current Position: Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California at San Diego.
Research Areas: Cryptography, computer and network security, e-commerce, computational complexity theory.
Professional Experience: Research staff member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, 1991--1995; Faculty member, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California at San Diego, 1995--present.
Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technlogy, 1991; B.S. with honors in Mathematics, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 1986; Baccalaureat Serie C, Ecole Active Bilingue, Paris, France, 1981.
Awards: RSA conference award for mathematics, 2003 ; David and Lucille Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering, 1996; NSF CAREER Award, 1996; IBM Outstanding Innovation Award, 1997; IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement award, 1996; IBM Invention Achievement Awards, 1993 and 1995; IBM Author Recognition Award, 1993; Spencer Eaken Allmond Scholarship, 1986; Carnation Prize, Caltech, 1985; Member, Tau Beta Pi honor society.
Grants: David and Lucille Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering, 1996; NSF CAREER Award, 1996.
Professional Activities: Program chair, Crypto 2000 conference; Program Committee Member Crypto'93, Eurocrypt'95, Crypto'96, STOC'97, FOCS'98, Eurocrypt'99, PODC'99, SODA'00, CCS'02, Crypto'03, CCS'03. Member of Advisory Editorial Board for CRC Handbook of Applied Cryptography, CRC Press, 1996. Reviewer for numerous journals and funding agencies.
Publications: 100 publications in journals and refereed conferences, including 40 in the top ranking cryptography conferences (Crypto and Eurocrypt) and 19 in the top ranking theory conferences (FOCS and STOC).
Impact: Co-developer of HMAC authentication algorithm which is an IETF IPSEC Internet Standard and ANSI X.9 keyed hash standard, currently being used in numerous products including BSAFE (RSA Data Security Corp.), SSL (3.0 and 3.1), S-HTTP, NetBSD, CDSA (Hewlett-Packard); Co-developer of OAEP encryption algorithm which is included in the IEEE P1363 draft standard and the RSA PKCS #1 v2.0 standard; Co-developer of iKP, a family of electronic payment protocols that lead to MasterCard and Visa's SET.
Invited Presentations: Invited speaker, Rowland Institute for Science, 1991; Invited speaker, Information Security Workshop, Japan, 1997; Invited speaker, RSA Laboratories seminar series, Oakland, 1997; Invited speaker, 3rd Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Canada, 1999; Invited speaker, 7th Annual Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography, Canada, 2000; Invited lecturer, Summer School in Cryptology and Data Security, Aarhus University, Denmark, 1998; Invited lecturer, International School for Computer Science Researchers, Italy, 2000; Invited talks at universities including Cornell, MIT, Stanford, Ohio State, U. of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, U. of Chicago, Technion, U. of Montreal, U. of California at Davis; Invited talks at research laboratories including Bellcore, IBM, AT&T.