Elaine Shi Professor Office 2217 Mehrabian Collaborative Innovation Center Email runting@cs.cmu.edu Department Computer Science Department Research Interests Theory Security Cryptography Game Theory Algorithms and Complexity Advisees Mingxun Zhou Rose Silver CSD Courses Taught 15330 - Fall, 2025 15621 - Spring, 2025 15435 - Fall, 2024 15635 - Fall, 2024 15735 - Fall, 2024 15621 - Spring, 2024 15893 - Spring, 2024 Biography I design and build systems that are efficient, provably secure, and friendly to users and programmers. To this end, I take an interdisciplinary approach that blends cryptography, systems security, and language-based security. I am interested in cryptography, game theory, algorithms, and foundations and blockchains. I am part of the CMU crypto group.
