Riad Wahby

Riad Wahby is an incoming (September '22) assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include systems, computer security, and applied cryptography, with a focus on practical applications of proof systems. Wahby and his collaborators received a 2016 IEEE S&P Distinguished Student Paper award for their work applying proofs to defend against supply chain attacks, and his work with Dan Boneh on hashing to elliptic curves is being standardized by the IETF. Previously, Wahby spent 10 years working as an analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit designer.