Sarah Scheffler
Assistant Professor, CyLab, Engineering and Public Policy, Software and Societal Systems Department
Sarah Scheffler an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, jointly appointed between Software and Societal Systems and Engineering and Public Policy. She is a studying applied cryptographer working at the intersection of computer science, policy, and law. Her interdisciplinary work includes policy and technical analysis of end-to-end encrypted content moderation, compelled decryption, privacy policies, and autonomous weapon systems. She also does “pure” applied cryptography, including work on zero-knowledge proofs, multi-party computation, private set intersection, and hash combiners.
Scheffler obtained her Ph.D. from Boston University, advised by Professor Mayank Varia, in 2021. During her time at BU, she was a Ph.D. student in the BUsec group, she organized the BUsec Seminar for security, cryptography, and privacy, as well as the Multi-Party Computation Reading Group, and was an active member of the Cyber Security, Law, and Society Alliance.
Research Interests
- anonymity
- Applications of security and privacy
- censorship resistance and measurement
- cryptography
- data security and privacy
- elections security
- network security
- privacy algorithms
- privacy engineering
- privacy enhancing technologies
- privacy policy and regulation
- protocol security
- risk analysis and management
- security policy and regulation
- social networks security and privacy
- verification
- web security
Media mentions
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
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