Susan Hohenberger
(a.k.a. Susan Hohenberger Waters)

Associate Research Professor
Department of Computer Science
Whiting School of Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University


Email:
Mail:



 susan /at/ cs.jhu.edu
JHU Information Security Institute
3400 N. Charles Street
NEB 224
Baltimore, MD 21218
 Short Bio
Dr. Hohenberger's research focuses on cryptography and computer security. She holds a
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was
advised by Ronald Rivest, and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University.
Prior to joining Hopkins, Dr. Hohenberger was a post-doc at IBM Research in Zurich, Switzerland.
She is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, a Google Faculty Research Award and a
Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship. She also works as an independent security consultant
and spends time in Texas with her husband and son.

Research
Publications are available online.
The PRL and FEATURES code are also available online.

Teaching
600.363/463 Introduction to Algorithms/Algorithms I -- Fall 2009
600.471 Theory of Computation -- Fall 2009
600.642 Advanced Topics in Cryptography -- Fall 2008
600.471 Theory of Computation -- Fall 2008
600.472 Theoretical Cryptography -- Spring 2008
600.471 Theory of Computation -- Fall 2007
600.641 Special Topics in Theoretical Cryptography -- Spring 2007

Program Committee Member
CRYPTO 2012 (Santa Barbara, California on August 19-23, 2012)
ACM CCS 2010 (Chicago, Illinois on October 4-8, 2010)
CRYPTO 2010 (Santa Barbara, California on August 15-19, 2010)
TCC 2010 (Zurich, Switzerland on February 9-11, 2010)
CRYPTO 2008 (Santa Barbara, California on August 17-21, 2008)
ICALP 2008 (Reykjavik, Iceland on July 7-11, 2008)
IEEE Security and Privacy 2008 (Oakland, California on May 18-21, 2008)
CT-RSA 2008 (San Francisco, California on April 8-11, 2008)
TCC 2008 (New York, New York on March 19-21, 2008)
PET 2007 (Ottawa, Canada on June 20-22, 2007)
ACNS 2007 (Zhuhai, China on June 5-8, 2007)

Research Funding
I gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the National Science Foundation, DARPA,
the Office of Naval Research, Google and Microsoft.
My graduate studies were supported primarily by a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
with some help from a Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship.