Derek Leung

Derek Leung, PhD student in MIT PDOS, a software engineer at the cryptocurrency startup Algorand.

I graduated from Berkeley in 2016 with a B.A. in Computer Science and Math. I graduated from MIT in 2018 with a M.S. in EECS, where I was advised by Nickolai Zeldovich.

At Berkeley, I was a teaching assistant under Joseph Hellerstein for his Databases course in Spring 2015 and Spring 2016. I worked as a research assistant for David Wagner.

My research interests are in building secure software and in applied cryptography. I’ve done some previous work in metadata privacy and in usable security.


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