Melissa Chase
Principal Researcher
About
Melissa Chase is a principal researcher in the Cryptography group at Microsoft Research Redmond. Her research focuses on defining, constructing and analyzing cryptographic protocols and primitives, with an emphasis on privacy-motivated applications. She has been at Microsoft for more than 15 years; her work has also formed the basis for systems deployed at Signal, ProtonMail, and WhatsApp. She has worked in a variety of areas within cryptography and privacy, including anonymous credentials, electronic cash, attribute based encryption, and most recently problems in identity, transparency, and end-to-end encryption.
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