Boston University
Details for Leonid Reyzin

Leonid Reyzin

Position Associate Professor
Telephone 617-353-3283
E-mail reyzin@cs.bu.edu
Office MCS 287
Personal homepage http://www.cs.bu.edu/~reyzin

Biography

Leo Reyzin received his A.B. from Harvard University, worked as a member of research staff at RSA Laboratories, and went on to receive his S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in cryptography at MIT. He conducts research on extending cryptographic techniques to provide protection in more realistic and more hostile environments. He has contributed to the development of cryptography standards, worked as an industry consultant, and served on numerous conference program committees, including Theory of Cryptography Conference, Public Key Cryptography Conference, and Crypto. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation's CAREER award.

Research interests: modern cryptography, applications of complexity theory and information theory.

Courses

Databases, data structures, introduction to computer science.