Kristin Estella Lauter (born 1969)[1] is an American mathematician andcryptographer whose research interest is broadly in application ofnumber theory andalgebraic geometry in cryptography. She is particularly known for her work in the area ofelliptic curve cryptography. She was a researcher atMicrosoft Research inRedmond, Washington, from 1999–2021 and the head of the Cryptography Group from 2008–2021; her group developedMicrosoft SEAL.[2] In April 2021, Lauter joinedFacebook AI Research (FAIR) as the West Coast Head of Research Science.[3] She became the President-Elect of theAssociation for Women in Mathematics in February 2014[4] and served as President February 1, 2015 - January 31, 2017.
Kristin Estella Lauter | |
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 Kristin Lauter in 2019 | |
| Born | (1969-12-08)December 8, 1969 (age 55) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Known for | Elliptic curve cryptography |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics,Cryptography |
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| Thesis | Ray class field constructions of curves over finite fields with many rational points (1996) |
| Doctoral advisor | Niels Ovesen Nygaard |
Education and career
editLauter received herBachelor of Arts,Master of Science, andPh.D, all in mathematics, from theUniversity of Chicago, in 1990, 1991, and 1996, respectively.
Prior to joiningMicrosoft, she held positions as a visiting scholar atMax Planck Institut fur Mathematik in Bonn, Germany (1997), T.H. Hildebrandt research assistant professor at the University of Michigan (1996-1999), and a visiting researcher at Institut de Mathematiques Luminy in France (1999).[5][6]
In 1999, Lauter joined Microsoft to work on her research incryptography.[7] She has worked on developing new cryptographic systems, research onpost quantum systems, and researching to find faults in current cryptographic systems.
In 2005, she worked with coworkers at Microsoft to develop a cryptographic algorithm from supersingular isogeny graphs. She created a HASH function from it and presented it at theNIST hash function competition.[7]
Dr. Kristin Lauter is also known for her work inhomomorphic encryption, which has been commonly used inmachine-learning, buildingmathematical models,private AI, and the collection ofgenomic data.[7] She has also worked on encryption with theCloud. She has given many tutorials on homomorphic encryption for broad audiences. A specific tutorial on homomorphic encryption allowed her to meet some iDASH organizers to whom she explained her encryption techniques, such asedit distance andchi-squared statistics.[8]
Beginning in April 2021, Lauter joined Facebook AI Research as West Coast Head of Research Science, leading the Seattle and Menlo Park Labs with groups in Core Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics, Natural Language Processing, and other areas.[3]
Service
editShe is a co-founder of the Women in Numbers Network,[9] a research collaboration community for women in number theory. The first conference was held in 2008 and it was called the WIN Conference. Groups of number theorists work on research and have published about 50 papers.[10] She served on the Advisory Board[11] of theBanff International Research Station and on the Council[12] of theAmerican Mathematical Society. She served as president of theAssociation for Women in Mathematics 2015–2017.[13] From 2014 to 2016, Lauter served as a Council Member at Large for the American Mathematical Society.[14] She currently serves on the board of trustees of theMathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI); her term on the MSRI Board is 2018–2022.[15]
Recognition
editLauter and her coauthors were awarded theSelfridge Prize atANTS VIII for their paperComputing Hilbert Class Polynomials.[16] She was elected to the 2015 Class of Fellows of theAmerican Mathematical Society "for contributions to arithmetic geometry and cryptography as well as service to the community."[17]
In 2017, she was selected as a fellow of theAssociation for Women in Mathematics in the inaugural class.[18]
She was chosen as the Pólya Lecturer for theMathematical Association of America, lasting from 2018–2020.[19][20]
In 2020 she was elected afellow of theSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) with the citation "Kristin E. Lauter, Microsoft Research, is being recognized for the development of practical cryptography and for leadership in the mathematical community."[21]
In 2020, she was elected Fellow of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science, in the Section on Mathematics.[22]
In 2021, Lauter was elected as an honorary member of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society. Real Sociedad Matemática Española (RSME), founded in 1911, is the oldest mathematical society of Spain.[23]
In 2022 she was selected to be the SIAM Block Community Lecturer.[24]
References
edit- ^Birth year fromLibrary of Congress catalog data, retrieved 2018-11-29.
- ^"Kristin Lauter, Principal Researcher and Partner Research Manager".Microsoft. Archived fromthe original on 7 July 2020.
- ^ab"Kristin E. Lauter". Facebook AI Research. Retrieved7 May 2021.
- ^"President-Elect: Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research".Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter. Vol. 43, no. 6. November–December 2013. pp. 4–6.
- ^"Kristin Lauter Curriculum Vitae"(PDF).Microsoft. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 31 May 2019.
- ^Kristin Lauter at theMathematics Genealogy Project
- ^abc"Tales from the Crypt(ography) Lab with Dr. Kristin Lauter".Microsoft Research. 2018-04-11. Retrieved2019-07-17.
- ^"Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research". Association for Women in Mathematics. Archived fromthe original on 30 May 2016.
- ^"Women in Number Theory".Women in Number Theory. Retrieved3 February 2017.
- ^"Women in Number Theory – A Mathematical Community". Retrieved2019-07-17.
- ^"Current Members of the Scientific Advisory Board".Banff International Research Center. Retrieved3 February 2017.
- ^"Council of the AMS".Council of the AMS. American Mathematical Society. Retrieved3 February 2017.
- ^"History".Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). Retrieved2019-04-07.
- ^"AMS Committees".American Mathematical Society. Retrieved2023-03-27.
- ^"Board of Trustees". Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. Retrieved14 April 2021.
- ^"Eighth Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium ANTS-VIII, May 17-22, 2008, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta (Canada)". Archived fromthe original on 2012-07-22. Retrieved2012-07-13.
- ^List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- ^"2018 Inaugural Class of AWM Fellows".awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/. Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved9 January 2021.
- ^"Kristin Lauter".SIAM. Retrieved2019-07-17.
- ^"Pólya Lectures".Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved2022-11-27.
- ^"SIAM Announces Class of 2020 Fellows". Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. 31 March 2020. Retrieved31 March 2020.
- ^"Mathematics People - AAAS Fellows Elected"(PDF).Notices of the American Mathematical Society.68: 437.
- ^"Figalli, Lauter, Teissier y Uhlenbeck, nuevos socios de honor de la RSME". Real Sociedad Matemática Española. 12 February 2021. Retrieved11 April 2021.
- ^"2022 SIAM Block Community Lecture Presented by Dr. Kristin Lauter".SIAM News. 10 March 2022. Retrieved2022-05-28.