Biography: Rebecca Wright
Dr. Rebecca Wright is the Druckenmiller Professor of Computer Science
and Director of the Vagelos Computational Science Center at Barnard College.
Prior to joining Barnard, she was a professor in the Computer Science
Department and Director of DIMACS at Rutgers, a professor in the
Computer Science Department at Stevens Institute of Technology in
Hoboken, New Jersey, and a researcher in the Secure Systems Research
Department at AT&T Labs and AT&T Bell Labs. Her research is primarily
in the area of information security, including cryptography, privacy,
foundations of computer security, and fault-tolerant distributed
computing. Recent work includes accountability, differential privacy,
privacy-preserving data mining, and secure multiparty approximations.
Her ongoing research goals are the design of protocols, systems, and
services that perform their specified computational or communication
functions even if some of the participants or underlying components
behave maliciously, and that balance individual needs such as privacy
with collective needs such as network survivability and public safety.
Dr. Wright serves as an editor of the Transactions on Data
Privacy. She is a member of the board of the Computing Research
Association's Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research
(CRA-WP). She was a member of the board of directors of the
International Association for Cryptologic Research from 2001 to 2005
and the steering committee of the Information Security Conference from
2006 to 2010, and an editor of the Journal of Computer Security from
2001 to 2011. She was Program Chair of Financial Cryptography 2003
and the 2006 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
(CCS) and General Chair of Crypto 2002. She has served on numerous
program committees, including Crypto, the ACM SIGKDD International
Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, and the Usenix
Security Symposium. She received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from
Yale University in 1994 and a B.A. from Columbia University in 1988.
She received an honorary M.E. from Stevens Institute of Technology in
2006. She is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow.