Rawane Issa
Cryptography & Secure Computation Researcher
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRawane Issa is a Cryptography and Secure Computation Researcher with a decade of experience designing and analyzing efficient, practical secure protocols. Based in Portland, he joined Galois after completing a PhD in Computer Science at Boston University, where his academic and lab roles blended theoretical cryptography with applied software engineering. At Galois he focuses on bringing formally grounded cryptographic techniques into real-world systems, building on prior internships and fellowships that connected research to production software. His work emphasizes efficiency and deployability, aiming to reduce the performance gap between secure computation theory and practice. Rawane maintains an active research profile and a public website showcasing papers and tools, reflecting a habit of making complex ideas accessible to engineers. His background—from a BE in Computer Engineering at AUB to a US-based PhD—gives him a cross-cultural perspective on secure systems development.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at American University of BeirutMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Boston University
English, Arabic, French
Github Skills (54)
computation10
multiparty10
fhe10
mpc10
sat-solver10
multi-party-computation10
intervals10
zk10
noise10
privacy-enhancing-technologies10
homomorphic-encryption10
javascript9
threshold9
dbus9
signature9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Ra1issa/hecate
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:89 commits, 76 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
Ra1issa/swanky
Sep 2020 - May 2021
A suite of rust libraries for secure multi-party computation
Contributions:140 pushes, 8 branches in 7 months
computationsecureshamir-secret-sharingcryptographyparty
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