Rebecca N. Wright

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Rebecca N. Wright
Alma mater Columbia University (BA)
Yale University (PhD)
Awards IEEE Fellow, ACM Distinguished Member
Scientific career
Fields Computer security
Institutions Rutgers University
Barnard College
Doctoral advisor Michael J. Fischer

Rebecca N. Wright (born 1967) [1] is an American computer scientist known for her research in computer security. She is the Druckenmiller Professor of Computer Science at Barnard College. [2]

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Education and career

Wright was an undergraduate at Columbia University, graduating in 1988. [3] She went to Yale University for her graduate studies, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1994. Her dissertation, Achieving Perfect Secrecy Using Correlated Random Variables, was supervised by Michael J. Fischer. [4]

Wright was employed at DIMACS at Rutgers University from 2007 to 2018, [5] starting as deputy director and becoming director in 2011. In January 2019, she moved to Barnard College, as the inaugural director of a new computer science program there. [3]

Recognition

Wright was named an IEEE Fellow in 2017 "for contributions to applied cryptography and privacy". [6] In the same year, she was named an ACM Distinguished Member. [7]

In 2019, she won the Distinguished Service Award of SIGACT, part of the Association for Computing Machinery, "for her 11-year leadership of DIMACS, particularly in continuing and expanding the research and educational missions of DIMACS, for promoting diversity in computer science, and for using her expertise in privacy and security to help shape public policy on a national level". [8]

References

  1. ↑ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2019-05-02.
  2. ↑ Barnard College Hires Rebecca N. Wright as Druckenmiller Professor of Computer Science and the Director of Vagelos Computational Science Center, Barnard College, September 17, 2018
  3. 1 2 Bandrowski, Ainsley (September 17, 2018), "Barnard names Rebecca Wright, CC '88, as inaugural computer science director", Columbia Spectator
  4. ↑ Rebecca N. Wright at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ "DIMACS :: People". dimacs.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  6. ↑ "Prof. Rebecca Wright named 2018 IEEE Fellow & ACM Distinguished Member", News & Events, Rutgers Department of Computer Science, November 22, 2017
  7. ↑ Jim Ormond (November 8, 2017). "ACM Recognizes 2017 Distinguished Members as Pioneering Innovators that Are Advancing the Digital Age: Global Roster Selected for Outstanding Scientific, Engineering and Educational Contributions to Computing". Association for Computing Machinery . Retrieved January 12, 2026.
  8. ↑ Babai, László; Fortnow, Lance; Sinclair, Alistair (April 28, 2019), 2019 ACM-SIGACT Distinguished Service Award : Rebecca Wright, SIGACT
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