Lea Kissner

Office: Wean Hall 3721
412-CMU-1549

Current Employer: BBN Technologies

Advisor: Dawn Song

Research Interests. My primary research interest is in problems of cryptography and privacy. I am particularly interested in efficient solutions to practical problems, and in novel proof techniques.

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Thesis. My thesis is on the topic of privacy-preserving distributed information sharing. I am honored to have the following people on my committee: Manuel Blum, Dan Boneh, Benny Pinkas, Mike Reiter, and Dawn Song. [Proposal Document] [Proposal Slides] [Thesis document]

Selected Publications.

Lea Kissner, Dawn Song, "Privacy-Preserving Set Operations", CRYPTO 2005. [Updated version] [Bibtex Citation]
Lea Kissner, Alina Oprea, Michael Reiter, Dawn Song, and Ke Yang, "Private Keyword-Based Push and Pull with Applications to Anonymous Communication", ACNS 2004. [Bibtex Citation]
Lea Kissner and Dawn Song, "Verifying Server Computation", ACNS 2004.
Sunil K. Agrawal, Lea Kissner and Mark Yim, "Joint Solutions of Many Degrees-of-freedom Systems Using Dextrous Workspaces", IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2001.
Ben Chui, Lea Kissner, "Nanorobots for Mars EVA Repair", SAE Intl. Conf. on Environmental Systems, July 2000.

Selected Talks.

Privacy-Preserving Set Operations, CRYPTO 2005 (note that the element reduction operation has been superceded by the version in the full paper)
Privacy-Preserving Set Operations, CMU Speaking Skills talk (general audience) [PDF] [QT movie] (note that the element reduction operation has been superceded by the version in the full paper)