{"id":2,"date":"2019-07-02T17:45:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T17:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/oneill\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-05-25T16:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T16:05:26","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/oneill\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been on the faculty at UMass Amherst since 2019.\u00a0 Previously, I was an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University (2013-2018).\u00a0 Before that, I was a post-doc at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/\">Boston University<\/a> (2011-2013), hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/%7Ecanetti\/\">Ran Canetti<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/%7Ereyzin\/\">Leo Reyzin<\/a>, and at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\">University of Texas at Austin<\/a> (2010-2011), hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.utexas.edu\/%7Ebwaters\/\">Brent Waters<\/a>. I received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/\">Georgia Institute of Technology<\/a> (2010). My advisor was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/%7Eaboldyre\/\">Sasha Boldyreva<\/a>. I received a B.A. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Mathematics from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsd.edu\">University of California, San Diego<\/a> (2005).<\/p>\n<p>In recognition of the sustained impact of my doctoral work, I received the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iacr.org\/testoftime\/\">IACR CRYPTO 2022 Test-of-Time Award<\/a> jointly with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cseweb.ucsd.edu\/~mihir\/\">Mihir Bellare<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~aboldyre\/\">Sasha Boldyreva<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been on the faculty at UMass Amherst since 2019.\u00a0 Previously, I was an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University (2013-2018).\u00a0 Before that, I was a post-doc at Boston University (2011-2013), hosted by Ran Canetti and Leo Reyzin, and at the University of Texas at Austin (2010-2011), hosted by Brent Waters. I received a Ph.D. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/oneill\/biography\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Biography&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","hfeed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/oneill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/oneill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/oneill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/oneill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/oneill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/oneill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/oneill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/oneill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}