David Jao
I am an associate professor in the Faculty of Mathematics (http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/) at the University of Waterloo (http://www.uwaterloo.ca/). I am a member of the:
- Center for Applied Cryptographic Research (http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/)
- Department of Combinatorics and Optimization (http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/CandO_Dept/)
- David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science (http://cs.uwaterloo.ca) (cross-appointed)
My research interests are in the areas of number theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Theory) and cryptography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography), with emphasis on elliptic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_Curve_Cryptography) and hyperelliptic curve cryptography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperelliptic_Curve_Cryptography).
Prior to joining the University of Waterloo, I was a post-doc researcher in the Cryptography and Anti-Piracy Group (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/crypto/) at Microsoft Research (http://research.microsoft.com/). I received my Ph.D. in Mathematics (http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=71888) from Harvard University (http://www.math.harvard.edu/) under the supervision of Noam Elkies (http://www.math.harvard.edu/~elkies/).