Event
ECE Colloquium Series - Dana Dachman-Soled, UMD
Friday, September 5, 2025
3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Room 1110
Darcy Long
301 405 3114
dlong123@umd.edu
Talk Title: A Survey of Results in Modern Cryptography: Beyond RSA and Diffie-Hellman
Abstract: Cryptographic techniques—broadly construed—enable parties to store or process data while safeguarding its privacy or integrity. In this talk, I will present three recent, representative results spanning post-quantum cryptography, privacy-preserving machine learning, and complexity-theoretic cryptography. Each result builds on core ideas from foundational cryptography, yet applies them in distinct settings, illustrating the breadth and versatility of the field.
Bio: Dana Dachman-Soled is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and UMIACS at the University of Maryland, College Park and is a core faculty member of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center. She is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement award, a University of Maryland Research and Scholarship (RASA) award, a George Corcoran Award for Faculty from UMD, two JP Morgan Faculty Research Awards, and a CCS Best Paper Honorable Mention award. In addition, her research has been funded by NSF, NIST, Cisco, Amazon, and Intel.
Prior to joining University of Maryland, Dana spent two years as a postdoc at Microsoft Research New England. Before that, she completed her PhD at Columbia University.
Her research spans cryptography, complexity theory, and machine learning, with broad interests including non-malleable codes, post-quantum cryptography, secure multiparty computation, and fairness and privacy in machine learning.
