I am a cryptography and privacy researcher. Currently, I am a member of the Cryptography, Security, and Privacy lab at the University of Waterloo. I am also the Chief Scientist for the Zcash Foundation and a Principal Researcher for Dfns. I am currently involved in the NIST standardization effort for threshold signature schemes; to standardize FROST and Sparkle, two threshold schemes which I am a co-author of.

Before moving into cryptography research, I worked as an engineer on open-source security and privacy related projects, including Tor, Enigmail, and the Off-The-Record (OTR) messaging protocol.

My current and past research includes the following:

• Designing quantum-secure cryptographic primitives.
• Efficient threshold signatures.
• Improved privacy properties for multi-party signature schemes.
• Security of secret sharing schemes.

My Curriculum Vitae

Occasionally, I write blog posts here: writing.chelseakomlo.com

Materials of past talks that I have given can be found here.