Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, United States, 2020
- M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, 2010
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, 2010
- B.S. in Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, 2007
Biography
Megumi Ando will be an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Tufts University starting Fall 2023. Prior to this appointment, she was a Lead Cybersecurity Research Scientist at the MITRE Corporation, leading independent research projects and serving as a technical consultant for federal agencies, such as the Department of Commerce. Her training in the mathematical foundations of computer science began at MIT where she earned double B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Mathematics and an M.Eng. degree in EECS. During her tenure at MITRE, she received a fellowship to pursue a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Brown University. She received her PhD in 2020 under the mentorship of Prof. Anna Lysyanskaya (Cryptography) and Prof. Eli Upfal (Probabilistic Methods, Machine Learning). The Ando lab at Tufts will work on the theoretical foundations of anonymous communications.