Jessica Nicola Staddon is an American computer scientist with broad research interests that include cryptography, human–computer interaction, information visualization, coding theory, and information privacy. She is a research scientist at Google,[1] and an adjunct professor of computer science at North Carolina State University.[2]

Education and career edit

Staddon earned her Ph.D. in mathematics in 1997 at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation, A Combinational Study of Communication, Storage and Traceability in Broadcast Encryption Systems, was supervised by Leo Harrington.[3]

Her interests in computer science broadened through successive moves to RSA Security (1997–1999), Bell Labs (1999–2001), PARC (2001–2010), and Google, where she began working in 2010.[4][5] She returned to academia as an associate professor at North Carolina State University in 2015,[5] but later returned to Google.[1][2]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Jessica Staddon", People, Google AI, retrieved 2019-09-28
  2. ^ a b "Dr. Jessica Staddon, Adjunct Professor", Computer Science People, North Carolina State University, retrieved 2019-09-28
  3. ^ Jessica Staddon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Scoică, Adrian (September 2013), "Jessica Staddon: Managing Google's privacy research", Crossroads, ACM, doi:10.1145/2517256, S2CID 27657969
  5. ^ a b CSC Department Welcomes New Faculty, North Carolina State University, July 6, 2015, retrieved 2019-09-28

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