Sharon Goldberg

Sharon Goldberg is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and a Sloan Research Fellow. She was selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow in fall 2012. She joined BU’s Department of Computer Science in 2010. Her research focuses on the security and privacy of computer networks, by combining formal techniques from cryptography and game theory with empirical network data and large-scale simulations. She has served on working groups of the advisory council to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on the security and reliability of telecommunications systems. Professor Goldberg received her PhD from Princeton University in July 2009. Before coming to BU, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, New England.