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)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)
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
