Rebecca N. Wright
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Yale University (PhD)
Barnard College
Rebecca N. Wright | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | Columbia University (BA) Yale University (PhD) |
| Awards | IEEE Fellow, ACM Distinguished Member |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer security |
| Institutions | Rutgers University Barnard College |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael J. Fischer |
Rebecca N. Wright (born 1967)[1] is an American computer scientist known for her research in computer security. She is the Druckenmiller Professor of Computer Science at Barnard College.[2]
Wright was an undergraduate at Columbia University, graduating in 1988.[3] She went to Yale University for her graduate studies, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1994. Her dissertation, Achieving Perfect Secrecy Using Correlated Random Variables, was supervised by Michael J. Fischer.[4]
Wright was employed at DIMACS at Rutgers University from 2007 to 2018,[5] starting as deputy director and becoming director in 2011. In January 2019, she moved to Barnard College, as the inaugural director of a new computer science program there.[3]
