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Sarah Meiklejohn

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Sarah Meiklejohn is an American computer scientist.[1][2][3]

Meiklejohn led a team at the University of California, San Diego which traced bitcoin by creating maps using blockchain records which could potentially be used to identify specific users.[4]

She is the professor of Cryptography and Security at University College London.[5]

Education

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She has a MS in Computer Science, a BS in Mathematics from Brown University and a PhD in Computer Science from UC San Diego,[5] after defending their dissertation “Flexible Models for Secure Systems”.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Greenberg, Andy (January 17, 2024). "How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin's Anonymity". Wired. Retrieved February 3, 2024 – via www.wired.com.
  2. ^ https://archive.nytimes.com/dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/12/05/in-the-murky-world-of-bitcoin-fraud-is-quicker-than-the-law/
  3. ^ Simonite, Tom (September 5, 2013). "Mapping the Bitcoin Economy Could Reveal Users' Identities". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2024-02-04.
  4. ^ "Some crypto-criminals think jumping across blockchains covers their tracks. Big mistake. – MIT Technology Review". August 22, 2019.
  5. ^ a b "Sarah Meiklejohn". profiles.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-02-04.
  6. ^ Meiklejohn, Sarah. "Flexible Models for Secure Systems". PhD dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2014. Available online.
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