Bio, CV, and Publication List of Joan Feigenbaum
Joan Feigenbaum
is the Grace Murray Hopper Professor of
Computer Science
at Yale University, where she also holds a
courtesy appointment as Professor of Economics. She received a BA in
Mathematics from Harvard and a Ph.D. in
Computer Science from Stanford. Between
finishing her Ph.D. in 1986 and starting at Yale in 2000, she was with
AT&T, where she participated broadly in the company's
Information-Sciences research agenda, e.g., by creating a research
group in Algorithms and Distributed Data, of which she was the manager in
1998-99. Professor Feigenbaum's research interests include security,
privacy, anonymity, and accountability; Internet algorithmics; and
computational complexity. While at Yale, she has been a principal
in several high-profile activities, including the DHS-funded Pri-Fi Project,
the DARPA-funded
DISSENT project,
and the NSF-funded
PORTIA project.
Her many service contributions to the research community include
Program Chair of Crypto '91,
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal
of Cryptology (1997-2002),
Program Co-Chair of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (2004),
Program Chair of the ACM
Symposium on Theory of Computing (2013),
Department Chair of the Yale Computer Science Department (July 2014 through
June 2017), General Chair of the inaugural
ACM Symposium on Computer Science
and Law (2019), and ACM Vice President (July 2020 through June 2022).
Professor Feigenbaum is
a Fellow of the IACR,
a Fellow of the IEEE,
an Amazon Scholar,
a Fellow
of the ACM, a Fellow of the AAAS, a Member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, and a
Connecticut Technology Council Woman of Innovation.
In 1998, she was an invited speaker at the
International Congress of Mathematicians.
In May 2020, she won the
Test-of-Time
Award from the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy for her 1996 paper
(with Matt Blaze and Jack Lacy) entitled "Decentralized Trust Management."
Full Curriculum Vitae:
[CV.pdf]
Full publication list:
[PUBS.pdf]
[PDF list with links to papers]
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