Email: erblum (at) umd (dot) edu
Erica Blum
PhD Student & Research Intern
I am a computer science PhD student at the University of Maryland College Park, advised by Jonathan Katz. My research interests are in cryptography and distributed computing. Always Have a Backup Plan: Fully Secure Synchronous MPC with Asynchronous Fallback, CRYPTO 2020. Network-Agnostic State Machine Replication, 2020. Crypto Chickens Go to the Beach, CRYPTO 2019 Rump Session. Summer 2020 Summer 2019 2018-Present PhD Computer Science (in progress) MSc Computer Science (completed Spring 2020) 2014-2018 BSc with Mathematics Major, Computer Science Minor 2019 DFINITY Scholarship Winner 2019 Facebook Fellowship Honorable Mention 2019 NSF GRFP Honorable Mention 2019 CRA Grad Women Cohort UMD Dean’s FellowshipAbout Me
Research
Publications
Erica Blum, Chen-Da Liu-Zhang, and Julian Loss.
Synchronous Consensus with Optimal Asynchronous Fallback Guarantees, TCC 2019.
Erica Blum, Jonathan Katz, and Julian Loss.
The Combinatorics of the Longest-Chain Rule: Linear consistency for proof-of-stake blockchains, SODA 2020.
Erica Blum, Aggelos Kiayias, Cristopher Moore, Saad Quader, and Alexander Russell.ePrints
Erica Blum, Jonathan Katz, and Julian Loss.
Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement with Subquadratic Communication, 2020.
Erica Blum, Jonathan Katz, Chen-Da Liu-Zhang, and Julian Loss.Misc
Experience
Research Intern @ Facebook
Scalable Consensus Intern @ SRI International
Education
University of Maryland College Park
Haverford College
Awards & Honors