Kristin Lauter
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Who is Kristin Lauter?
Kristin Lauter is an American mathematician and cryptographer whose research interest is broadly in application of number theory and algebraic geometry in cryptography. She is particularly known for her work in the area of elliptic curve cryptography. She is currently a researcher and the head of the Cryptography Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington.
Kristin Lauter received her Bachelor of Arts, Master of Science, and Ph.D, all in mathematics, from the University of Chicago, in 1990, 1991, and 1996, respectively. Prior to joining Microsoft, she held positions as a visiting scholar at Max Planck Institut fur Mathematik in Bonn, Germany, T.H. Hildebrandt research assistant professor at the University of Michigan, and a visiting researcher at Institut de Mathematiques Luminy in France.
Kristin Lauter, together with her coauthors, was awarded the Selfridge Prize at ANTS VIII for their paper Computing Hilbert Class Polynomials.
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