Huijia (Rachel) Lin

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Huijia (Rachel) Lin is a Chinese-American computer scientist whose research in cryptography includes work on indistinguishability obfuscation and non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs. [1] [2] She is an associate professor and Paul G. Allen Career Development Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. [3] [4]

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Education and career

Lin has a bachelor's degree in computer science from Zhejiang University in China, [5] and a Ph.D. from Cornell University, completed in 2011. Her dissertation, Concurrent Security, was supervised by Rafael Pass. [6]

After postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston University, she became an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2013. [7] She took her present position at the University of Washington in 2018. [5]

Recognition

Several of Lin's conference papers have won best paper awards. [3] She was an invited speaker at the 2022 (virtual) International Congress of Mathematicians. [8]

References

  1. ↑ Quill, Elizabeth (September 29, 2022), "Huijia Lin proved that a master tool of cryptography is possible", Science News, retrieved 2024-08-16
  2. ↑ Klarreich, Erica (November 10, 2020), "Computer Scientists Achieve 'Crown Jewel' of Cryptography: A cryptographic master tool called indistinguishability obfuscation has for years seemed too good to be true. Three researchers have figured out that it can work.", Quanta
  3. 1 2 Lin, Rachel, Bio, University of Washington, retrieved 2024-08-16
  4. ↑ The Paul G. Allen Career Development Professorships, University of Washington, retrieved 2024-08-16
  5. 1 2 Allen School welcomes nine new faculty with expertise in cryptography, data science, machine learning, and more, University of Washington, November 21, 2018, retrieved 2024-08-16
  6. ↑ Huijia (Rachel) Lin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. ↑ Dr. Rachel Lin to join the CS faculty, UC Santa Barbara Computer Science, June 29, 2013, retrieved 2024-08-16
  8. ↑ ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers, International Mathematical Union, retrieved 2024-08-16
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