C. Chris Erway

Hi! I received a PhD from Brown in 2011. My advisor was John Jannotti. Now I am a co-founder and CTO at Tracelytics.

academics, publications

While at Brown I was a member of the Brownie Points project, which aimed to provide incentives and accountability in peer-to-peer systems using secure, anonymous e-cash.

• “Anonymous Accounting for Decentralized Systems,” my PhD thesis. Available as officially submitted or in easier-to-read single-spaced format.
• “ZKPDL: A Language-based System for Efficient Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Electronic Cash.” Sarah Meiklejohn, C. Chris Erway, Alptekin Küpçü, Theodora Hinkle, Anna Lysyanskaya. In USENIX Security 2010. (pdf, project page)
• “Dynamic Provable Data Possession.” C. Chris Erway, Alptekin Küpçü, Charalampos Papamanthou, Roberto Tamassia. In ACM CCS 2009. (full version on eprint)
• “MicroID considered harmful (to privacy).” C. Chris Erway. (technical report: PDF, details)
• “Incentivizing Outsourced Computation.” Mira Belenkiy, Melissa Chase, C. Chris Erway, John Jannotti, Alptekin Küpçü, Anna Lysyanskaya. In NetEcon 2008. (full TR version with proofs: pdf)
• “Making P2P Accountable without Losing Privacy.” Mira Belenkiy, Melissa Chase, C. Chris Erway, John Jannotti, Alptekin Küpçü, Anna Lysyanskaya, Eric Rachlin. In WPES 2007. PET Award finalist! (press release, pdf)
• “Optimization of MPI Collective Communication on BlueGene/L Systems.” G. Almasi, C. J. Archer, C. Chris Erway, P. Heidelberger, X. Martorell, J. E. Moreira, B. Steinmacher-Burow, Y. Zheng. In ICS 2005. (pdf, ACM)
  
• me on DBLP, CSB.
• undergrad profile in the Cornell Chronicle, 2002.

other

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