Joan Feigenbaum
Joan Feigenbaum is the Grace Murray Hopper Professor of Computer Science at Yale University and also holds an economics appointment. Her research interests include security, privacy, anonymity, accountability, Internet algorithms, and computational complexity.
Trust management
At AT&T's research laboratories, Feigenbaum and colleagues developed work that Yale identifies as part of the security-research area called trust management. The area addresses how systems can represent and evaluate authorization and trust assertions.
Research and service
Feigenbaum has combined research in security and privacy with work in algorithms, incentives, and data streams. She served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cryptology from 1997 to 2002 and has contributed to technical and public discussions about privacy and security.
Timeline
- 1986Completes a Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University.
- 1986Begins research work at AT&T after completing her doctorate.
- 1997Begins a term as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cryptology.
- 2000Joins Yale University.
- Type
- Person
- Era
- 1980s-Present
- Known for
- Trust management; Security and privacy research; Internet algorithms
- Tags
- security, privacy, trust-management, cryptography, academic-research