Erica Blum
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Computer Science Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences
Erica Blum is a cybersecurity researcher and cryptographer. She is especially interested in using cryptography to design systems of many devices that are provably secure even when some devices are faulty. This type of challenge appears in many different contexts across computer science, including multiparty computation, where a group of parties want to jointly compute some output while keeping their individual inputs private, and Byzantine consensus, where a set of devices need to agree on an output despite faulty devices or poor network connections. Before coming to Reed, Erica received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Haverford College and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland.