Bio

I am an Associate in the Financial Modeling Group at BlackRock in New York City, mainly focusing on valuation of fixed income derivatives. Before coming to New York, I spent a year and a half working as an Algorithm Engineer at Idée Inc, a Toronto startup specializing in visual search software. Prior to that, I was a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Toronto, advised by the inimitable Charlie Rackoff. I got my Hon. B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Trinity College.

For my Master's thesis, I investigated security in the Random Oracle Model (ROM). Among other things, I proved that every secure canonical identification scheme — even a "trivial" one — yields a Fiat-Shamir signature scheme secure in the ROM. I also showed how to modify an early version of a certain public-key encryption scheme to make it CCA2-secure in the ROM.