Anna A. Lysyanskaya is an American cryptographer known for her research on digital signatures and anonymous digital credentials. [1] [2] She is the James A. and Julie N. Brown Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. [3]
Lysyanskaya grew up in Kyiv, Ukraine, and came to the US in 1993 to attend Smith College, [2] where she graduated in 1997. She went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1999 and completing her Ph.D. in 2002. [4] Her dissertation, Signature Schemes and Applications to Cryptographic Protocol Design, was supervised by Ron Rivest. [5]
After completing her doctorate, Lysyanskaya joined the Brown University faculty in 2002. [4] She was given the James A. and Julie N. Brown Professorship in 2023. [3]
She is a member of the board of directors of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, first elected in 2012, and re-elected for three additional three-year terms in 2015, 2018 and 2021. [6] She served on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) through 2021. [7]
She was awarded the Levchin Prize in 2024 “for the development of efficient Anonymous Credentials”. [8]
Anna A. Lysyanskaya is an American cryptographer known for her research on digital signatures and anonymous digital credentials. [1] [2] She is the James A. and Julie N. Brown Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. [3]
Lysyanskaya grew up in Kyiv, Ukraine, and came to the US in 1993 to attend Smith College, [2] where she graduated in 1997. She went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1999 and completing her Ph.D. in 2002. [4] Her dissertation, Signature Schemes and Applications to Cryptographic Protocol Design, was supervised by Ron Rivest. [5]
After completing her doctorate, Lysyanskaya joined the Brown University faculty in 2002. [4] She was given the James A. and Julie N. Brown Professorship in 2023. [3]
She is a member of the board of directors of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, first elected in 2012, and re-elected for three additional three-year terms in 2015, 2018 and 2021. [6] She served on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) through 2021. [7]
She was awarded the Levchin Prize in 2024 “for the development of efficient Anonymous Credentials”. [8]