Nicholas Spooner
Postdoctoral Associate
RISCS
- Education
- Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
M.Sc., Computer Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
B.A., Computer Science, University of Cambridge - spooner@eecs.berkeley.edu
Postdoctoral Associate, Boston University
Nicholas is a postdoc at Boston University, hosted by Ran Canetti. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley, where he was advised by Alessandro Chiesa. His work focuses on post-quantum proof systems. His interests include interactive proof systems and zero knowledge in general, post-quantum cryptography, coding theory and computational complexity. In summer 2018, he was an intern at IBM Research Zürich, working with Jan Camenisch. He received his master’s degree in theoretical computer science from ETH Zürich, Switzerland, in 2015. He received his bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Cambridge in 2013. His bachelor’s thesis was Implementation and evaluation of algebraic algorithms for graph isomorphism.