Professor Alan Theodore Sherman
Professor · Tenured
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
College of Engineering and Information Technology
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About
Alan T. Sherman’s research contributions include protocol analysis, educational cybersecurity assessment tools, and the VoteXX, Scantegrity, and Random Sample Election projects. A cryptographic consultant for private industry, Sherman earned his MS and PhD under Ronald Rivest at MIT.
Research interests
Security of voting systems, protocol analysis, cybersecurity education, cryptology, cybersecurity, discrete algorithms.
Teaching interests
Cybersecurity, cryptology, algorithms, discrete math
Education
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Ph D, computer science
— MIT (1987) Cryptology and VLSI (a two-part dissertation): I. Detecting and exploiting algebraic weaknesses in cryptosystems II. Algorithms for placing modules on a custom VLSI chip
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Other, electrical engineering and computer science
— MIT (1981) On the Enigma cryptograph and formal definitions of cryptographic strength
- Other, mathematics — Brown University (1978)