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Melissa Erin Chase is an American cryptographer known for her research on attribute-based encryption, digital credentials, and information privacy. She works at Microsoft Research.

Education

Chase graduated in 2003 from Harvey Mudd College, with a senior thesis in mathematics about the shortest path problem, advised by Ran Libeskind-Hadas. She earned a Ph.D. from Brown University with Anna Lysyanskaya as her doctoral advisor.

Contributions

At Microsoft, Chase is one of the developers of Picnic, a digital signature scheme that Microsoft has submitted to the National Institute of Standards and Technology Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization competition. Chase spoke about the project as an invited speaker at Real World Crypto 2018 in Zürich.

References

1. ^ Melissa Chase, Microsoft Research, retrieved 2018-11-10
2. "Melissa Chase, Harvey Mudd College Mathematics 2003", Senior Thesis archives, Harvey Mudd College Mathematics Department, retrieved 2018-11-10
3. Picnic: A Family of Post-Quantum Secure Digital Signature Algorithms, Microsoft Research, retrieved 2018-11-10
4. "Round 1 Submissions", Post-Quantum Cryptography, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 3 January 2017, retrieved 2018-11-10
5. Real World Crypto 2018, retrieved 2018-11-10

External links

• Melissa Chase publications indexed by Google Scholar

• Living people
• American computer scientists
• American cryptographers
• Public-key cryptographers
• Harvey Mudd College alumni
• Brown University alumni
• American women cryptographers