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Basics

Name	Elisaweta Masserova
Label	Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Email	elisawem@cs.cmu.edu

Work

2024.09 - PRESENT

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Carnegie Bosch Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University

Applied cryptography research.
2024.06 - 2024.08

New York, New York
Summer Research Associate

J.P. Morgan AI Research, JPMorganChase

Worked on privacy-preserving machine learning.
2023.06 - 2023.08

New York, New York
Summer Research Associate

J.P. Morgan AI Research, JPMorganChase

Research on MPC for large-scale distributed systems.

Education

2018.08 - 2024.09

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
PhD

Carnegie Mellon University

Computer Science
2018.08 - 2022.12

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Master of Science

Carnegie Mellon University

Computer Science
2016.05 - 2019.03

Karlsruhe, Germany
Master of Science

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Informatics
2013.10 - 2018.08

Karlsruhe, Germany
Bachelor of Science

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Mathematics
2011.10 - 2016.05

Karlsruhe, Germany
Bachelor of Science

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Informatics

Grants, honors, and awards

2024

Carnegie Bosch Fellowship

Carnegie Bosch Institute

Two-year award supporting outstanding postdoctoral researchers conducting high-potential research within the excellence-driven environment of CMU.
2015

InterAct scholarship

Baden-Württemberg-Stiftung

Award for conducting bachelor thesis research in the USA.
2014

HackZurich

1st place at Europe’s largest hackathon.
2014

Microsoft Imagine Cup

Microsoft Germany

1st Place at the Microsoft Imagine Cup national final in the Innovation category.

Languages

	English
	Fluent

	German
	Fluent

	Ukrainian
	Native speaker

	Russian
	Native speaker

Interests

	Cryptography
	Multi-Party Computation
	Blockchains
	Crypto x Distributed Systems
	Crypto x Game Theory

	AI
	Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
	Fairness in AI