Professor, Boston University
founder, Sealance

Eran Tromer is a Professor of Computer Science at Boston University, working on cryptography and information security. He 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.

He is a founding scientist of the Zcash privacy-preserving blockchain; a founder of Sealance, which builds blockchain-based privacy-preserving financial regulation technology; and a founder of the ZKProof Standardization Effort. He received his Ph.D. at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and previously pursued his research at Columbia University, Tel Aviv University, MIT and Microsoft Research.