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Vanishree Rao
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Cryptographer, Building Coda Protocol, UCLA PhD, passionate about gender equality. DM for crypto consulting.

I am a Cryptographer and my passion is identifying security pain points and designing, developing, and deploying solutions.

Currently, I work on Cryptography at O(1)Labs, where we aim to compress entire blockchain to just the size of a few tweets, no matter how many transactions enter the blockchain. For many blockchain applications, such scalability is crucial.

Prior to O(1)Labs, I have been fortunate to work on Cryptography at Intertrust Technologies, where I worked with Dave Maher, CTO of Intertrust, on enhancing Intertrust's cryptography and security offerings. My focus areas were digital rights management and whitebox cryptography.

Prior to Intertrust, I was a Research Scientist at Xerox PARC, where I worked on various government-funded as well as industry-need driven projects.

Prior to that, I obtained my PhD in Theoretical Cryptography from UCLA. I was fortunate to be advised by Professor Amit Sahai, a world-renowned Cryptographer. I worked on various cryptographic primitives, including, secure hash functions, advanced digital signature schemes, zero-knowledge proofs, multi-party computation protocols, key exchange protocols, program obfuscation, etc. My thesis gave the first fully secure multiparty non-interactive key exchange in the standard model.


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