People
CRCS is composed of members of Harvard’s Computer Science Faculty, Visiting Scholars, Postdoctoral Fellows , and is led by an Executive Committee.
Harvard Computer Science Faculty
Greg Morrisett
Allen B. Cutting Professor of Computer Science
Michael D. Smith
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Michael Rabin
Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Professor of Computer Science
Stuart Shieber
Harvard College Professor; James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science
Salil Vadhan
Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Computer Science
Visiting Scholars
Yevgeniy Dodis
Yevgeniy Dodis is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at New
York University. His main field of research is cryptography and
network security, including exposure-resilient cryptography,
cryptography and imperfect randomness, cryptography with biometrics
and other noisy data, authenticated encryption, hash functions and
information-theoretic cryptography. Dr. Dodis received his summa cum
laude Bachelors degree in Mathematics and Computer science from New
York University in 1996, and his PhD degree in Computer Science from
MIT in 2000. Dr. Dodis is the recipient of National Science
Foundation CAREER Award and IBM Faculty Award.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Ben Adida
Ben Adida’s research applies cryptography to public policy problems, including secure voting, online identity, and secure health records. He is the Creative Commons representative to the W3C, where he works on interoperable web metadata as chair of the RDF-in-HTML task force. Ben received a PhD from MIT’s Cryptography and Information Security group, under the supervision of Ronald L. Rivest. Previously, Ben co-founded two software startups that developed database-backed web application platforms based on free/open-source software.
Rachna Dhamija
Dhamija’s research interests span the fields of computer security, human computer interaction and information policy. She received a Ph.D. from the School of Information Management and Systems at U.C. Berkeley in 2005. Her thesis focused on the design and evaluation of usable security systems. Previously, Dhamija worked on electronic payment system privacy and security at CyberCash. Her research has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Economist.
Simson L. Garfinkel
Garfinkel has research interests in computer forensics, the emerging field of usability and security, and in personal information management. He is also interested in information policy and terrorism, and has actively published and researched in these areas since the late 1980s. He is also a founder of Sandstorm Enterprises, a computer security firm that develops advanced computer forensic tools used by businesses and governments to audit their systems. Garfinkel writes a monthly column for CSO Magazine and previously wrote a weekly column for The Boston Globe and for Technology Review Magazine. He was a founding contributor of Wired Magazine. Garfinkel is also the author or co-author of fourteen books on computing. He received three Bachelor of Science degrees from MIT in 1987, a master’s of science in journalism from Columbia University in 1988, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 2005.
Rachel Greenstadt
Rachel Greenstadt’s research interests lie at the intersection of privacy, security and multi-agent systems. She received a PhD in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard, advised by Michael D. Smith. Her thesis analyzes the privacy properties of current distributed constraint optimization algorithms and presented new algorithms that perform better with respect to privacy. Previously, she was a Department of Homeland Security fellow and, before that, a M.Eng. student at MIT. Her previous work examined privacy in the context of e-commerce, regulatory regimes, and electronic health care, as well as the application of DRM technology to privacy problems, covert channels, and steganography.
Past Visiting Scholars
Omer Reingold
Reingold is the incumbent of the Walter and Elsie Haas Career Development Chair at the Weizmann Institute of Science ( Israel ). His main fields of research are Computational Complexity and Foundations of Cryptography with a particular emphasis on randomness, derandomization, and Explicit Combinatorial Constructions. From 1999-2004, he was a member of AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ, and a visiting member of the School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ. Reingold completed his Ph.D. at the Weizmann Institute and his undergraduate studies at Tel-Aviv University.
Past Postdoctoral Fellows
Alon Rosen
Rosen’s main fields of interest are Cryptography and Computational Complexity. Before becoming a visiting postdoc at DEAS, he spent two years as a postdoc in the Cryptography Group of MIT ’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Rosen completed his Ph.D. at the Weizmann Institute of Science, under the supervision of Oded Goldreich and Moni Naor in 2003.
Executive Committee
Stuart M. Shieber
Welch Professor of Computer Science (Faculty Director)
Barbara J. Grosz
Higgins Professor of Natural Science
Stephen Kosslyn
Lindsley Professor of Psychology
Michael Rabin
Watson Professor of Computer Science
Jonathan Zittrain
Berkman Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Harvard Law School
Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation, Oxford University