Eran Tromer

Eran Tromer is a professor in the department of computer science and the Questrom School of Business at Boston University.

His research studies ways to build robust distributed computer systems that ensure privacy and integrity, using cryptographic tools such zero-knowledge proofs and homomorphic encryption. He also studies the resilience of computing platforms to data theft and tampering, such as side-channel attacks at the physical and software levels.  

Tromer is a founding scientist of the Zcash privacy-preserving cryptocurrency, which implements his Zerocash protocol, and a founder of Sealance Corp. which builds blockchain-based privacy-preserving financial regulation technology.

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