Anna Lysyanskaya is a James A. and Julie N. Brown Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. A theme of her academic research is on balancing privacy with accountability, and specifically allowing users to prove that they are authorized even while not revealing any additional information about themselves. Professor Lysyanskaya is a recipient of numerous awards from the National Science Foundation, as well as industry grants from IBM, Google, and Facebook. She has served on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) since 2012 and served as Program co-chair of the annual Crypto conference in 2023. In 2024, she was awarded the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography. Professor Lysyanskaya received an A.B. degree from Smith College in 1997, an S.M. degree from MIT in 1999, and a Ph.D. from MIT in 2002.
