alexch [at] csail [dot] mit [dot] edu
MIT
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
MIT CSAIL
32-G636
32 Vassar St.
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
(617) 253-7843
I am a third-year doctoral student in the Theory of Computation group in CSAIL at MIT. I am interested in cryptography, mechanism design, complexity theory, quantum computation, algorithms, and security. My advisor is Prof. Silvio Micali.
I earned my master's degree in the same group. My master's thesis advisors were Prof. Eran Tromer and Prof. Ron Rivest. In my thesis, I developed a cryptographic framework, proof-carrying data, to secure distributed computations between mutually untrusting and potentially malicious parties. The thesis won the Charles and Jennifer Johnson award for outstanding CS M.Eng. thesis.
I earned my undergraduate degree at MIT and double majored in Mathematics and Computer Science and Engineering, with a concentration in Chinese. Outside of classes and labs, I rowed for the heavyweight varsity crew team at MIT.
Before coming to MIT, I lived in Varese, Italy, where I was born in 1987. While in Italy, I attended the European School of Varese from kindergarten through high school. This school is part of the system of European Schools, which awards students the European Baccalaureate.
