I am a PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins University studying computer science. I am part of the
Advanced Research in Cryptography group and advised by
Professor Matthew Green. I am currently interested in applied cryptography and broadly on problems in computer security that impact technology policy. In particular, I seek to improve privacy by designing schemes with rigorously proven guarantees and auditing existing schemes to understand how privacy loss arises. Outside of my work at JHU, I have collaborated with
Professor Narayanan's group in the
CITP at Princeton University in
blockchain analysis.
I was previously an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan studying Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics. While there, I worked with
Professor J. Alex Halderman, most recently aiding in the development of
censys.io.
I can be reached at
alishahc@cs.jhu.edu.