Adam D. Smith Associate Professor Computer Science and Engineering Department Pennsylvania State University, University Park Ph.D. (MIT), 2004 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 2009. Research: Papers and talk slides Teaching: Courses, students, info for prospective students Biographical data: CV, short bio, portraits (2006, 2009). Contact: Email: asmith concatenated with psu dot edu Phone: +1 (814) 863-0076 Office: IST 338K Spring 2012 office hours: MWF 11:15am-noon and F 3:30-4:30pm. My nearly defunct blog: Oddly Shaped Pegs

News

• I gave a tutorial on privacy in statistical databases at CRYPTO 2012 (slides (pdf, 15.7 MB)).
• Trent Jaeger, Jon Katz and I ran a summer school on cryptography, May 30-June 1, 2012 at Penn State.
• I was the program chair for ICITS 2012. Proceedings are now online (via Springer).
• July 1, 2010: Promoted to associate professor with tenure. One day, if I'm lucky, I'll be a completely unqualified professor.
• February 2010: I co-organized a workshop on Statistical and Learning-Theoretic Challenges in Data Privacy (February 22-26, 2010) at IPAM. More about the workshop here.
• January 2010: Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), for my NSF CAREER proposal on Rigorous Foundations for Data Privacy.

About me

I am part of the Theory of Computation and the Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security (SIIS) groups at Penn State. If you are interested in cryptography or theoretical computer science, consider attending the theory seminar (or at least sign up for the mailing list).

During Fall 2006, before coming to Penn State, I was Securing Cyberspace at UCLA's IPAM. Previously, I was a post-doc at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel, hosted by Moni Naor. Before that, I did a Ph.D. in the Computer Science and AI Lab at MIT, under the supervision of Madhu Sudan.