Josh Benaloh

Background Information

I have been with the Microsoft Corporation since 1994. I earned an S.B. in Mathematics from MIT in 1981, an M.S. and M.Phil. in Computer Science from Yale University in 1985, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University in 1987. I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto from 1987 through 1990, and an assistant professor at Clarkson University from 1990 through 1994.

Service to the Research Community

• Member of the United States Department of Commerce Technical Advisory Committee to Develop a Federal Information Processing Standard for the Federal Key Management Infrastructure, 1996-1998
• Member of California Internet Voting Advisory Committee, 2000
• Secretary of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, 1999-2004
• Elected Director of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, 2009-2017
• General Chair, International Association for Cryptologic Research — CRYPTO Conference, 2006
• General/Program Chair, Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (WOTE), 2007
• Program Chair, RSA Conference — Cryptographers’ Track, 2014
• Member of National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on the Future of Voting:  Accessible, Reliable, Verifiable Technology, 2017-2018
• Co-Chair Election Verification Network (EVN) Conference, 2018
• Member of Election Verification Network Coordinating Committee, 2018-present
• Member of the Program Committees for Crypto ’89, SAC ’95, Crypto ’96, CT-RSA ’01, Eurocrypt ’01, Crypto ’01, SAC ’03, Asiacrypt ’03, IEEE Security and Privacy ’04, IEEE Security and Privacy ’05, CCS ’05, EVT ’06, WOTE, ’06, VOTE-ID ’07, ISC ’08, Asiacrypt ’08, EVT ’08, VOTE-ID ’09, Asiacrypt, ’09, EVT/WOTE ’09, EVT/WOTE ’10, RLCPS ’11, VOTEID ’11, EVT/WOTE ’11, EVT/WOTE ’12, VOTE-ID ’13, CT-RSA ’13, EVT/WOTE ’13, EVT/WOTE ’14, SAC ’15, CT-RSA ’15, CT-RSA ’16, E-Vote-ID ’16, CT-RSA ’17, E-Vote-ID ’17, CT-RSA ’18, E-Vote-ID ’18, CT-RSA ’19, E-Vote-ID ’19
• Referee for numerous research journals