Jessica Staddon

{{short description|American computer scientist}}

Jessica Nicola Staddon is an American computer scientist with broad research interests that include cryptography, human–computer interaction, information visualization, coding theory, and information privacy. She is a research scientist at Google,{{r|goog}} and an adjunct professor of computer science at North Carolina State University.{{r|ncsu}}

Education and career

Staddon earned her Ph.D. in mathematics in 1997 at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation, A Combinational Study of Communication, Storage and Traceability in Broadcast Encryption Systems, was supervised by Leo Harrington.{{r|mg}}

Her interests in computer science broadened through successive moves to RSA Security (1997–1999), Bell Labs (1999–2001), PARC (2001–2010), and Google, where she began working in 2010.{{r|xr|newfac}} She returned to academia as an associate professor at North Carolina State University in 2015,{{r|newfac}} but later returned to Google.{{r|goog|ncsu}}

References

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{{citation|url=https://ai.google/research/people/JessicaStaddon|title=Jessica Staddon|work=People|publisher=Google AI|access-date=2019-09-28}}

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{{citation|url=https://www.csc.ncsu.edu/people/jnstaddo|title=Dr. Jessica Staddon, Adjunct Professor|work=Computer Science People|publisher=North Carolina State University|access-date=2019-09-28}}

{{citation|url=https://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/1775|title=CSC Department Welcomes New Faculty|date=July 6, 2015|publisher=North Carolina State University|access-date=2019-09-28}}

{{citation|url=https://xrds.acm.org/article.cfm?aid=2517256|title=Jessica Staddon: Managing Google's privacy research|magazine=Crossroads|publisher=ACM|first=Adrian|last=Scoică|date=September 2013|doi=10.1145/2517256|s2cid=27657969}}

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