World-leaders in Cryptography: Anna Lysyanskaya

Anna is a Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. Her research spans many areas of advanced cryptography including with digital signatures, group signatures, blind signatures, e-cash and anonymous digital credentials. She was originally from Ukraine, and undertook her masters degree at MIT in 1999, and then went onto a PhD in 2002 in the areas of Signature Schemes and Applications to Cryptographic Protocol Design. She joined Brown University in 2002, and was made a full professor in 2013. She is a member of the board of directors at  the IACR, along with serving  on Scientific Advisory Board for the Board of Directors of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). In 2024, she was awarded the Levchin Prize for a contribution entitled "For the Development of Anonymous Credentials".