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Angela Robinson awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Established by President Clinton in 1996, PECASE recognizes scientists and engineers who show exceptional potential for leadership early in their research careers. The award recognizes innovative and far-reaching developments in science and technology, expands awareness of careers in science and engineering, recognizes the scientific missions of participating agencies, enhances connections between research and impacts on society, and highlights the importance of science and technology for our nation’s future.
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Angela Robinson has been awarded the PECASE for her innovative work in the field of Post-Quantum Cryptography and privacy-enhancing cryptography. She helped develop a practical algorithm for privacy-preserving proximity detection with a direct application to the Covid-19 pandemic during the lockdown period, resulting in two publications and a role as Information Security Research and Education (InSuRE) project technical lead, and a technical reviewer for 6 DARPA proposals related to fully homomorphic encryption, zero-knowledge proofs, and secure multiparty computation. She also leads a research group in creating cryptographic methods to protect information systems in the post quantum world.