She obtained her PhD from Columbia University in 2012 and was a postdoc at the cryptography group at IBM Research Watson. Prior to joining Yale she was a research scientist for two years at SRI. Her work develops new cryptographic techniques that facilitate the use of private data while protecting the privacy of the data and guaranteeing verifiability. Her research interests include secure computation, verifiable computation and obfuscation. Beyond constructing new cryptographic protocols, her work also focuses on implementations that leverage the newly developed cryptographic tools and optimize the efficiency of the resulting systems both at algorithmic and systems level aiming for realistic loads.