Seny Kamara

Associate Professor Seny Kamara

Associate Professor of Computer Science at Brown University and Chief Scientist at Aroki Systems

Website: http://cs.brown.edu/~seny/

Seny Kamara is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Brown University and Chief Scientist at Aroki Systems. Before joining Brown, he was a researcher at Microsoft Research.

His research is in cryptography and is driven by real-world problems from privacy, security and surveillance. He has worked extensively on the design and cryptanalysis of encrypted search algorithms, which are efficient algorithms to search on end-to-end encrypted data. He maintains interests in various aspects of theory and systems, including applied and theoretical cryptography, data structures and algorithms, databases, networking, game theory and technology policy.

At Brown, he co-directs the Encrypted Systems Lab and is affiliated with the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies, the Data Science Initiative and the Policy Lab.