Sarah Meiklejohn

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Sarah Meiklejohn is an American computer scientist. [1] [2] [3]

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Meiklejohn led a team at the University of California, San Diego which traced bitcoin by creating maps using blockchain records which could potentially be used to identify specific users. [4]

She is the professor of Cryptography and Security at University College London. [5]

Education

She has a MS in Computer Science, a BS in Mathematics from Brown University and a PhD in Computer Science from UC San Diego, [5] after defending her dissertation “Flexible Models for Secure Systems”. [6]

References

  1. ↑ Greenberg, Andy (January 17, 2024). "How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin's Anonymity". Wired. Retrieved February 3, 2024– via www.wired.com.
  2. ↑ "In the Murky World of Bitcoin, Fraud is Quicker Than the Law". 5 December 2013.
  3. ↑ Simonite, Tom (September 5, 2013). "Mapping the Bitcoin Economy Could Reveal Users' Identities". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2024-02-04.
  4. ↑ "Some crypto-criminals think jumping across blockchains covers their tracks. Big mistake. – MIT Technology Review". August 22, 2019.
  5. 1 2 "Sarah Meiklejohn". profiles.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-02-04.
  6. ↑ Meiklejohn, Sarah. "Flexible Models for Secure Systems". PhD dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2014. Available online.
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