{"id":23028,"date":"2021-03-22T16:11:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T20:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=23028"},"modified":"2022-05-31T12:29:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T16:29:34","slug":"nicholas-spooner","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/nicholas-spooner\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Spooner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Postdoctoral Associate, Boston University<\/p>\n<div class=\"contentText\">Nicholas is a postdoc at Boston University, hosted by Ran Canetti. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley, where he was advised by<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/people.eecs.berkeley.edu\/~alexch\/\">Alessandro Chiesa<\/a>. 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 Z\u00fcrich, working with Jan Camenisch. He received his master&#8217;s degree in theoretical computer science from ETH Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland, in 2015. He received his bachelor&#8217;s degree in computer science from the University of Cambridge in 2013. His bachelor&#8217;s thesis was<span>\u00a0<\/span><i><a href=\"https:\/\/people.eecs.berkeley.edu\/~spooner\/download\/diss.pdf\">Implementation and evaluation of algebraic algorithms for graph isomorphism<\/a><\/i>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":18800,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/23028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/23028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23031,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/23028\/revisions\/23031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}