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Ian Goldberg is a Professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Privacy Enhancing Technologies and leads the Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) group. He is affiliated with the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute and the Institute for Quantum Computing.
- Research Focus: Security, privacy, and privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) for the Internet, including Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging, censorship resistance, private information retrieval, and zero-knowledge proofs.
- Recent Publications: His work addresses metadata protection, deniable authentication, and secure multi-party computation, with applications to anonymous communication and censorship resistance.
Scientific Awards:
- Canada Research Chair in Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Students: He advises current and former PhD/Master’s students in projects like Lox, PRSONA, Walkie-Talkie, and SkypeMorph. Notable advisees include Sajin Sasy (Privacy-Preserving Communications), Justin Tracey (PETs Development), and Tao Wang (Website Fingerprinting Defenses).
Labs & Teams: Goldberg is a core member of the CrySP group and contributes to the Tor Project and Off-the-Record Messaging open-source initiatives. His research bridges theoretical and applied cryptography, with deployments in real-world systems like Tor and PIR protocols.
