{"610656":{"#nid":"610656","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Associate Chair Alexandra Boldyreva Co-chairs Biggest Cryptography Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computer Science Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~aboldyre\/\u0022\u003EAlexandra Boldyreva\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Erecently served as program co-chair for one of largest cryptography conferences in the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUp to 640 people registered for the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/crypto.iacr.org\/2018\/\u0022\u003ECrypto\u003C\/a\u003E conference in Santa Barbara, California. The August event had its largest attendance in its 37 year history. The program included academic talks, as well as new workshops for industry professionals.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECrypto started in 1981 and was the first academic cryptography conference. Boldyreva has been attending the annual event since 1999. She found out in spring of 2017 that the International Association for Cryptographic Research selected her as co-chair for the 2018 and 2019 conferences.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe and her co-chair, University of Texas at Austin Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EHovav Shacham\u003C\/strong\u003E, wanted 2018\u0026rsquo;s conference to have the best papers in the most interesting areas with a good balance of theoretical and practical research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;When the public hears cryptography, they think of cryptocurrency, but it\u0026rsquo;s so much more than that,\u0026rdquo; Boldyreva said. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s this growing need for security everywhere, and cryptography is part of that.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe conference received 351 paper submissions and accepted 79. Novel research advances in the following areas were presented: rncryption and authentication, secure messaging and key exchange protocols, protection against subversion, backdoors and physical attacks, cryptanalysis, searchable encryption, differential privacy, secure multiparty computation, zero knowledge, oblivious RAM, quantum and post-quantum cryptography, and program obfuscation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Boldyreva also recently took on a new role in SCS, now serving as the associate chair for graduate education. In her three-year appointment,\u0026nbsp;Boldyreva will manage the SCS Ph.D. program,\u0026nbsp;aid new students with orientation,\u0026nbsp;supervise admission and review processes, and assign teaching assistants.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Although \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/h-venkateswaran\u0022\u003EH. Venkateswaran\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E held the position since January 2014, Boldyreva has advised the master\u0026rsquo;s in cybersecurity before and felt like the position was a natural fit.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Since doing my Ph.D., I have always felt closer to Ph.D. students and wanted to help our department.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Alexandra Boldyreva became associate chair and co-charied Crypto in August."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2018-08-30 19:37:21","changed_gmt":"2018-08-30 19:58:30","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-08-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-08-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"610659":{"id":"610659","type":"image","title":"Sasha at Crypto","body":null,"created":"1535658664","gmt_created":"2018-08-30 19:51:04","changed":"1535658664","gmt_changed":"2018-08-30 19:51:04","alt":"Students at Crypto","file":{"fid":"232514","name":"sashastudents.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sashastudents.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sashastudents.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":819792,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/sashastudents.jpg?itok=fTGrFRxK"}}},"media_ids":["610659"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Comminications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}