Special Topics on Privacy and Public Auditability — Event 4

• 09:00--09:10: STPPA #4 intro
• 09:10--09:55: Invited talk: Anonymous Credentials, by Anna Lysyanskaya (Brown University, USA),
• 09:55--10:40: Invited talk: Blind Signatures: Past, Present, and Future, by Julian Loss (CISPA, Germany)
• 10:40--10:55: Break
• 10:55--11:40: Invited talk: Challenges and new Features for Anonymous Credentials: Revocation and Decentralization, by Foteini Baldimtsi (George Mason University, USA)

• 11:40--12:30: Panel conversation (with the three invited speakers, moderated by NIST-PEC)

List of invited speakers:

• Anna Lysyanskaya (Brown University, USA)
• Julian Loss (CISPA, Germany)
• Foteini Baldimtsi (George Mason University, USA)

List of bios (provided by the speakers):

Anna Lysyanskaya is a Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, which she joined in 2002 after receiving her Ph.D. from MIT.  A theme of her academic research is on balancing privacy with accountability, and specifically allowing users to prove that they are authorized even while not revealing any additional information about themselves.  Professor Lysyanskaya is a recipient of numerous awards from the National Science Foundation, as well as industry grants from IBM, Google, and Facebook. She has served on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR)  since 2012, and will serve as co-Chair of the annual Crypto conference in 2023.

Foteini Baldimtsi is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at George Mason University. She received her Ph.D. from Brown University in May 2014 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Boston University and University of Athens. Her research interests are in the areas of cryptography, security and data privacy. She focuses on designing provably secure cryptographic schemes for a variety of applications such as privacy preserving identity management and private and scalable blockchain transactions. She is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award as well as Google, IBM and Facebook faculty awards.

Julian Loss is a tenure-track faculty at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbrücken, Germany. After receiving his PhD from Ruhr University Bochum in 2019, he spent two years as a postdoc at the University of Maryland and Carnegie Mellon University.His research interests are in the area of cryptography and its intersection with distributed computing. Besides digital signatures, he has worked on problems such as distributed consensus, distributed clock synchronization, and is known for co-introducing the now widely-used algebraic group model.His work on the ROS problem won a best paper award at EUROCRYPT 2021.