Rachel Player
Associate Professor
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRachel Player is an Associate Professor and information security researcher with a decade of experience focused on post-quantum cryptography and homomorphic encryption. Based at Royal Holloway, University of London, she progressed from lecturer to senior lecturer and now to an associate professor role while maintaining a strong research profile. Her work includes EU H2020 and RISQ-funded projects and a Microsoft Research internship contributing to the SEAL homomorphic encryption library. She holds a PhD in Information Security and an MMath in Mathematics, combining deep theoretical grounding with practical implementation experience. Rachel frequently bridges academic research and applied cryptographic engineering, evidenced by her contributions to lattice-based cryptography collaborations across Europe. Her public site and GitHub reflect an active commitment to reproducible research and open dissemination of post-quantum techniques.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy Information Security, Doctor of Philosophy Information Security at Royal Holloway, University of LondonMMath Mathematics, MMath Mathematics at University of WarwickEaton Bank School
English, French
Github Skills (1)
nodejs4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rachelplayer/CLP19-code
May 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
rachelplayer/LatRedHybrid
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Costing the cost of Hybrid attacks against various Lattice-based schemes
Contributions:19 pushes in 1 month
latticeschemeshybridattackscosting
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