Marina Blanton
Associate Professor
Buffalo, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarina Blanton is an Associate Professor and co-founder with nine years of professional experience specializing in computer and information security, privacy, and applied cryptography. Based in Buffalo, NY, she leads academic research and mentors the next generation of security engineers at the University at Buffalo while translating research into practice through Interrupt Sciences LLC. Her background includes advanced studies at Purdue University (MS, PhD) and Ohio University, giving her a strong theoretical foundation paired with practical, entrepreneurial experience. Known for bridging rigorous cryptographic theory with deployable privacy solutions, she combines scholarly impact with product-minded problem solving. Colleagues describe her as someone who moves fluently between classroom, lab, and startup environments, turning complex security requirements into usable, auditable systems.
9 years of coding experience
MS, MS at Ohio UniversityMS, MS at Purdue University
Github Skills (2)
multi-party-computation6
compiler3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
PICCO-Team/picco
Jun 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 14 pushes in 3 years 8 months
applied-crypto-lab/picco
Apr 2023 - Feb 2026
This repository corresponds to the PICCO compiler for secure multi-party computation published in 2013 with more recent efficiency improvements.
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
compilermulti-party-computationsecret-sharingsecure-multi-party-computationsource-to-source-compiler
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