Dr. Ewa Syta obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University in 2015. Prior to joining Yale, she earned her B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science and Cryptology from Military University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests lie in computer security and distributed systems. The long-term objective of her research is to bring cutting-edge cryptographic techniques to real-world applications to shape tomorrow’s digital world. She has been working on effective identity management methods, stronger anonymous communication technologies, practical privacy-preserving authentication protocols, unbiasable distributed randomness protocols, ways to keep Internet authorities honest and accountable, and most recently, on blockchain technologies, and provable security for real-world protocols. Her current work is funded by the NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Medium Collaborative Award: "Applied Cryptographic Protocols with Provably Secure Foundation".

Dr. Syta is as enthusiastic about teaching as she is about research. Her teaching interests include cryptography, computer security, privacy, ethical issues in computing, and programming. Dr. Syta’s teaching philosophy reflects her belief that a structured learning environment that supports individual learning styles yields the best results. She strives to create an engaging, open and inclusive forum to facilitate student learning and personal and intellectual growth.

• Herzberg, Amir, Hemi Leibowitz, Ewa Syta, and Sara Wrótniak. "MoSS: Modular Security Specifications Framework." In Annual International Cryptology Conference, pp. 33-63. Springer, Cham, 2021.
• Kokoris-Kogias, Eleftherios, Enis Ceyhun Alp, Linus Gasser, Philipp Jovanovic, Ewa Syta, and Bryan Ford. "Calypso: Private Data Management for Decentralized Ledgers." Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 14, no. 4 (2020): 586-599.
• Kokoris-Kogias, Eleftherios, Philipp Jovanovic, Linus Gasser, Nicolas Gailly, Ewa Syta, and Bryan Ford. "Omniledger: A Secure, Scale-out, Decentralized Ledger via Sharding." In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SSP), pp. 583-598. IEEE, 2018.
• Syta, Ewa, Philipp Jovanovic, Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias, Nicolas Gailly, Linus Gasser, Ismail Khoffi, Michael J. Fischer, and Bryan Ford. "Scalable Bias-resistant Distributed Randomness." In  IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SSP), pp. 444-460. IEEE, 2017.
• Syta, Ewa, Iulia Tamas, Dylan Visher, David Isaac Wolinsky, Philipp Jovanovic, Linus Gasser, Nicolas Gailly, Ismail Khoffi, and Bryan Ford. "Keeping Authorities 'Honest or Bust' with Decentralized Witness Cosigning." In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SSP), pp. 526-545. IEEE, 2016.
• Syta, Ewa, Michael J. Fischer, David Wolinsky, Abraham Silberschatz, Gina Gallegos-García, and Bryan Ford. "Private Eyes: Secure Remote Biometric Authentication." In 12th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications (ICETE), vol. 4, pp. 243-250. IEEE, 2015.
• Syta, Ewa, Iulia Tamas, Dylan Visher, David Isaac Wolinsky, and Bryan Ford. "Certificate Cothority: Towards Trustworthy Collective CAs." Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (HotPETs) 7 (2015).

• NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Medium Collaborative Award: "Applied Cryptographic Protocols with Provably Secure Foundation", 2022-2026.
  
• Arthur H. Hughes Award for Teaching Achievement, 2022.
• Graduate Teaching Award, Department of Computer Science, Yale University, 2015.
• 2015 Rising Stars in EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015.
• Selected for the 1st Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation, 2013.