加州大学伯克利分校电气工程与计算机科学系导师教师师资介绍简介-Alessandro Chiesa

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Alessandro Chiesa

Assistant Professor

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Research Areas

Security (SEC)
Theory (THY)

Research Centers

Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing (SITC)

Teaching Schedule

Fall 2020

CS 294-153. Foundations of Probabilistic Proofs, TuTh 11:00AM - 12:29PM, Internet/Online

Spring 2021

CS 170. Efficient Algorithms and Intractable Problems, TuTh 9:00AM - 10:29AM,

Biography

Alessandro Chiesa was born in Varese, Italy, in 1987. He joined the EECS faculty at UC Berkeley in the summer of 2015 and currently conducts research in the areas of complexity theory, cryptography, and security, focusing on the theoretical foundations and practical implementations of zero knowledge proofs that are short and easy to verify. Chiesa is an author of libsnark, a C++ library for zkSNARKs, which is the leading open-source library for succinct zero knowledge proofs. He is a co-inventor of Zerocash, a new protocol that provides a privacy-preserving version of a cryptocurrency, and a co-founder of Zcash, a digital currency with strong privacy features. Both endeavors rely on libsnark. He is also a co-founder and chief scientist at StarkWare Industries, which uses succinct, transparent, zero knowledge cryptographic proofs to solve the inherent problems of blockchains – scalability and privacy.Before coming to Berkeley, Chiesa spent one year as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zürich, hosted by Thomas Holenstein. He studied Theory of Computation at CSAIL in MIT, where he earned his his M.Eng. in 2010, advised by Eran Tromer and Ron Rivest, and his Ph.D. in 2014, advised by Silvio Micali. He earned B.S. degrees from MIT in Mathematics and Computer Science in 2009.

Education

2014, Ph.D., Computer Science, MIT
2010, M.Eng., Computer Science, MIT
2009, B.S., Computer Science and Mathematics, MIT

Awards, Memberships and Fellowships

Okawa Research Grant, 2020
MIT Tech Review Top 35 Innovators Under 35 (TR35), 2018