Bio
Huijia (Rachel) Lin is a Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where she holds the Paul G. Allen Development Professorship. Her research focuses on cryptography and its connections to theoretical computer science and security. She has made foundational contributions to program obfuscation, functional encryption, attribute-based encryption, secure multiparty computation, non-malleability, and concurrent security.
Dr. Lin has received several honors in recognition of her work. She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, a Hellman Fellowship, a Cisco Research Award, a JPMorgan Faculty Award, and the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship. Her research has been recognized with a Best Paper Award at STOC 2021, a Best Paper Award at Eurocrypt 2018, and a Best Paper Honorable Mention at Eurocrypt 2016. In 2022, she was invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians and was named one of Science News's “10 Scientists to Watch.”
Before joining the University of Washington, Dr. Lin was an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University and completed postdoctoral research at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Department of Computer Science at Boston University.