Elaine Shi is a Chinese and American computer scientist and cryptographer, whose research has included work on

blockchain The blockchain is a distributed ledger with growing lists of Record (computer science), records (''blocks'') that are securely linked together via Cryptographic hash function, cryptographic hashes. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of th ...

and

smart contract A smart contract is a computer program or a Transaction Protocol Data Unit, transaction protocol that is intended to automatically execute, control or document events and actions according to the terms of a contract or an agreement. The objective ...

s, secure

distributed system Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems, defined as computer systems whose inter-communicating components are located on different networked computers. The components of a distributed system commun ...

s, and the

oblivious RAM An Oblivious RAM (ORAM) simulator is a compiler that transforms an algorithms, algorithm in such a way that the resulting algorithm preserves the Input/output, input-output (computing), output behavior of the original algorithm but the Probability ...

model, and cryptographic techniques for encrypted computation. She is an associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institu ...

Education and career

Shi is originally from

Hangzhou Hangzhou, , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ; formerly romanized as Hangchow is a sub-provincial city in East China and the capital of Zhejiang province. With a population of 13 million, the municipality comprises ten districts, two counti ...

, and did her undergraduate studies at

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (THU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Constructio ...

before completing her doctorate in 2008 at

. Her dissertation, ''Evaluating Predicates over Encrypted Data'', was supervised by

Adrian Perrig Adrian Perrig (born 1972) is a Swiss computer science researcher and professor at ETH Zurich, leading the Network Security research group. His research focuses on networking and systems security, and specifically on the design of a secure next-gene ...

. She worked as a researcher at PARC and the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

, as an assistant professor at the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1856, UMD i ...

, and as an associate professor at

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

before coming back to

as a faculty in Fall 2020. She is a recipient of a Packard Fellowship, a Sloan Fellowship, an ONR YIP award, and various other best paper awards.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shi, Elaine Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American computer scientists American women computer scientists Chinese computer scientists Chinese women computer scientists Carnegie Mellon University alumni University of Maryland, College Park faculty Cornell University faculty Carnegie Mellon University faculty 2023 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery