Rebecca Wright's One-Page Bio

Biography: Rebecca Wright

Rebecca Wright is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department and the Deputy Director of DIMACS at Rutgers. Prior to that, 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 (IOS Press) and the International Journal of Information and Computer Security (Inderscience), and was a member of the board of directors of the International Association for Cryptologic Research from 2001 to 2005. 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.