She has received several awards, including best paper awards, a Sloan Fellowship, an Intel Rising Star Faculty Award, and an ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Award. Her team won the IAPP Privacy SOUPS Award at SOUPS 2025; was a finalist for the Best Paper Award at SIGMETRICS 2025; received an honorable mention for the best paper award at ICLR 2025; won the Most Notable Paper: Social Impact Category at the CSAW Applied Research Competition 2024; and had an oral presentation at ICML 2024 with an honorable mention for best paper award at ICLR 2024 PML Workshop.
Research Experience
Her research focus is on the security and privacy implications of data transparency and sharing. Her research interests span the algorithmic and theoretical foundations of distributed systems, machine learning, and privacy-enhancing technologies. She is also a co-director of the Upanzi Network and the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts.
Education
Ph.D. in EECS from U.C. Berkeley; B.S. in ECE from Olin College of Engineering.
Background
The Angel Jordan Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests span the security, privacy, and efficiency of distributed systems. She is a co-director of CyLab-Africa and the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts.
Miscellany
She is a member of the UN’s Digital Public Infrastructure Safeguards Working Group, working on guidelines for the responsible deployment of DPI.