Elaine Runting Shi is an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where she is part of CyLab, CMU’s Security and Privacy Institute. Her research interests include cryptography, game theory, algorithms, and the foundations of blockchains. She is part of a small group of people whose work spans systems and theory.

Her textbook, Foundations of Distributed Consensus and Blockchains, is available for download. Shi was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to the scientific foundation of oblivious computation and decentralized blockchains.

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