Josh Benaloh
Josh Benaloh is Senior Cryptographer at Microsoft Research and an elected director of the International Association for Cryptologic Research. He earned his S.B degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and M.S., M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University, where his 1987 doctoral dissertation, "Verifiable Secret-Ballot Elections," introduced the use of homomorphic encryption to enable end-to-end verifiable election technologies.