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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.

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TBD, Collaborative Innovation Center
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sscheffl@andrew.cmu.edu
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Sarah Scheffler
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