Josh Benaloh
Josh Benaloh is Senior Cryptographer at Microsoft Research and an affiliate faculty member in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He earned his S.B. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University, where his 1987 dissertation Verifiable Secret-Ballot Elections introduced the use of homomorphic encryption as a paradigm to enable election tallies to be verified by individual voters and observers without having to trust election equipment, vendors, or personnel. Benaloh serves on the Coordinating Committee of the Election Verification Network, spent 17 years on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, and is an author of the September 2018 report, Securing the Vote: Protecting American Democracy, by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.
Biography current as of September 25, 2018