Elaine Shi

Elaine Runting Shi is a computer scientist and cryptographer, known for her work on Oblivious RAM, blockchain and smart contracts, secure distributed systems, cryptography, and algorithms. She is an associate professor of computer science at Cornell University.[1]

Education and career

Shi did her undergraduate studies at Tsinghua University[2] before completing her doctorate in 2008 at Carnegie Mellon University.[1] Her dissertation, Evaluating Predicates over Encrypted Data, was supervised by Adrian Perrig.[3]

She worked as a researcher at PARC and the University of California, Berkeley, and as an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park[4] before joining the Cornell faculty in 2015.

She is a Packard Fellow and a Sloan Fellow, the recipient of an ONR YIP award, an NSF CAREER award, and numerous best paper awards.

References
  1. "Elaine Shi", Faculty directory, Cornell Engineering, retrieved 2020-05-22
  2. "Welcome Elaine Shi", Spotlights, Cornell Engineering, retrieved 2020-05-22
  3. Elaine Shi at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Elaine Shi, Simons Institute, retrieved 2020-05-22
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