Biography: Rebecca Wright
Rebecca Wright is a professor in the Computer Science Department and
Director of DIMACS at Rutgers. Prior to joining Rutgers, she was a
professor in the Computer Science Department at Stevens Institute of
Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey until 2007. Earlier, she was a
researcher in the Secure Systems Research Department at AT&T Labs and
AT&T Bell Labs from 1994 to 2002. Her research spans the area of
information security, including cryptography, privacy, foundations of
computer security, and fault-tolerant distributed computing. Recent
work includes privacy-preserving data mining, secure multiparty
approximations, and improved bounds for Byzantine agreement in the
shared memory model. Her ongoing research goals are the design of
protocols, systems, and services that perform their specified
computational or communication functions even if some of the
participants or underlying components behave maliciously, and that
balance individual needs such as privacy with collective needs such as
network survivability and public safety.
Dr. Wright serves as an editor of the Journal of Computer Security,
the International Journal of Information and Computer Security, and
the Transactions on Data Privacy. She was a member of the board of
directors of the International Association for Cryptologic Research
from 2001 to 2005 and the steering committee of the Information
Security Conference from 2006 to 2010. She was Program Chair of
Financial Cryptography 2003 and the 2006 ACM Conference on Computer
and Communications Security (CCS) and General Chair of Crypto 2002.
She has served on numerous program committees, including Crypto, the
ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data
Mining, and the Usenix Security Symposium. She received a Ph.D. in
Computer Science from Yale University in 1994 and a B.A. from Columbia
University in 1988. She received an honorary M.E. from Stevens
Institute of Technology in 2006. She is a member of the IEEE, the
ACM, and the IACR.
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