Melissa Chase


I am a researcher in the Cryptography group at Microsoft Research Redmond. I recently completed a phd in Computer Science at Brown University, working under Anna Lysyanskaya . My research is in cryptography, and most of my work has been on definitions and constructions for new primitives. Recent work has involved NIZK proof techniques and applications to anonymity and privacy, attribute based encryption, P-signatures, simulatable verifiable random functions, and a project on integrating e-cash into peer-to-peer systems.

In the summer of 2007 I went to IBM Zurich to work with Jan Camenisch in the idemix group. I spent the semester of fall 2006 at the cryptography program at UCLA's IPAM.

I did my undergrad at Harvey Mudd College in Computer Science and Math (class of 2003).

My cv: (pdf)

Publications

Conferences

Crypto 2009 — Mira Belenkiy, Jan Camenisch, Melissa Chase, Markulf Kohlweiss, Anna Lysyanskaya, Hovav Shacham. Randomizable Proofs and Delegatable Anonymous Credentials

Pairing 2009 — Mira Belenkiy, Melissa Chase, Markulf Kohlweiss, Anna Lysyanskaya. Compact E-Cash and Simulatable VRFs Revisited

TCC 2008 — Mira Belenkiy, Melissa Chase, Markulf Kohlweiss, Anna Lysyanskaya. P-signatures and Non-Interactive Anonymous Credentials

Crypto 2007 — Melissa Chase and Anna Lysyanskaya. Simulatable VRFs with Applications to Multi-Theorem NIZK

TCC 2007 — Melissa Chase. Multi-Authority Attribute Based Encryption

Crypto 2006 — Melissa Chase and Anna Lysyanskaya. On Signatures of Knowledge (full version)

Eurocrypt 2005 — Melissa Chase, Alexander Healy, Anna Lysyanskaya, Tal Malkin, Leonid Reyzin. Mercurial Commitments with Applications to Zero-Knowledge Sets (full version)

Workshops

NetEcon 2008 — Mira Belenkiy, Melissa Chase, C. Chris Erway, John Jannotti, Alptekin Kupcu, Anna Lysyanskaya. Incentivising Outsourced Computation

WPES 2007 — Mira Belenkiy, Melissa Chase, C. Chris Erway, John Jannotti, Alptekin Kupcu, Anna Lysyanskaya, Eric Rachlin. Making P2P Accountable without Losing Privacy

Program Committees

I am on the following program committees:

Crypto 2008, August 17-21
CT-RSA 2009 , Submission Deadline Oct 13
Pairings 2009, Submission Deadline Mar 6

Please send good papers, and come and enjoy the conferences!


I am also co-organizing the MSR Redmond Cryptography Colloquium.

Teaching

This semester I will be teaching a course at the University of Washington: CSE 599B Cryptography. See http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse599b/09au/ for more information.

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