Rate My Professor Marina Blanton

Blanton's research focuses on information security, privacy, and applied cryptography, with emphasis on privacy-preserving computation and outsourcing, data-oblivious algorithms, secure multi-party computation, private biometric and genomic computation, authentication, and anonymity. A key contribution is PICCO, a compiler developed by her team that transforms programs for computing on private data into secure distributed implementations, utilized as a research experimentation tool, teaching resource, and practical toolkit. She has authored over 80 refereed publications, accumulating more than 6,000 citations and an h-index of 35 as of 2024. Selected works include the co-edited book Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook (2009), "Practical Secure Computation Outsourcing: A Survey" (ACM Computing Surveys, 2018), "Secure Pattern Matching based on Bit Parallelism" (International Journal of Information Security, 2019), "Binary Search in Secure Computation" (NDSS, 2022), and "Efficiently Compiling Secure Computation Protocols From Passive to Active Security" (PoPETs, 2024). Her accomplishments are honored by the 2024 ACM Distinguished Member award, Google Faculty Research Award (2019), AFOSR Young Investigator Award (2013), 2015 ACM CCS Test of Time Award for two papers, IEEE Senior Member (2016), ACM Senior Member (2015), and ELATES Fellowship (2022-2023).