Sofia Kover Wolf
Email me at: sofiakwolf (at) gmail (dot) com
Call me Sof :) I am a PhD student at UWaterloo with the CrySP group, supervised by Ian Goldberg and Sujaya Maiyya. My primary interest is in cryptography; I care about the impacts of cryptography on its end-users and have explored research topics guided by this principle. Currently I'm working on PIR with a focus on efficiency and usability over perfect security.
My final year project looked at key correlated security of message authentication codes. It provided formal definitions & proofs, while bridging the gap to concrete constructions wherever possible. I'm enjoying moving from there to more applied work, even with the many additional challenges that introduces!
If you are partial to joy and whimsy and so forth, I will also recommend you look at the SIGBOVIK paper I co-authored with my friends Anna and Peter (just go right in the webring ;) ). It may not be particularly serious, but the hours we spent designing, coding, and writing about FLOORPLAN (the language of the future) certainly were. You may also experience the awe-some power of FLOORPPLAN here.
Outside of of research interests I am an avid sports fan, amateur hockey player, surprisingly fast knitter, improving painter, eclectic reader, easily-distracted hiker... and so on and so forth, much to the detriment of my work tasks. More on these topics (and more!) can be found on this very website!