Biographical Sketch
Alan T. Sherman is an expert in cryptology, having carried out
research in algorithm design, cryptanalysis, theoretical foundations
for cryptography, and applications of cryptography.
He earned his MS and PhD under Ronald L. Rivest at MIT and is a
cryptographic consultant for private industry,
performing security evaluations and DARPA- and other
government-sponsored security research.
He has testified as an expert witness in electronic voting,
is an editor for Cryptologia,
and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi.
Currently Sherman is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at
UMBC in the Department of Computer science and electrical engineering
and Director of UMBC's Center for
Information Security and Assurance. As a member of the
National Center for the Study of Elections at UMBC, his main research
interest is high-integrity voting systems.