Christina Garman
Christina Garman is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. Her research interests focus on analyzing, building, and deploying privacy-enhancing technologies, with an eye towards identifying problems at the systems level and then composing practical solutions to solve them. This includes building and deploying privacy protocols, building tooling to better understand the security of existing applications and librar… ↓More
Joined department: Spring 2018
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Education
Bachelor of Science, Bucknell University, Computer Science and Engineering (2011)
Bachelor of Arts, Bucknell University, Mathematics (2011)
Master of Science in Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Computer Science (2013)
Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, Computer Science (2017)
Christina Garman is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. Her research interests focus on analyzing, building, and deploying privacy-enhancing technologies, with an eye towards identifying problems at the systems level and then composing practical solutions to solve them. This includes building and deploying privacy protocols, building tooling to better understand the security of existing applications and libraries, as well as designing hardware-backed primitives using TEEs. Christina received an NSF CAREER Award in 2021, and her work has received two best paper awards at ACM CCS, an IEEE Security and Privacy Test of Time Award, and been featured in numerous media, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, Wired, ArsTechnica, and The Economist. She is also one of the co-founders of Zcash, a privacy preserving cryptocurrency based on her work on Zerocash. She received her MS and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in Computer Science in 2013 and 2017 respectively, and a BS in Computer Science Engineering and a BA Mathematics, with a minor in Physics, from Bucknell University in 2011.