David A. Wilson

Dr. David A. Wilson is a technical staff member in the Secure Resilient Systems and Technology Group.  Wilson is a cryptographer, security designer, security analyst, and cruciverbalist.  Since joining MIT Lincoln Laboratory in 2014, Wilson has contributed as a system architect and cryptographer to a variety of innovative projects, from embedded radio encryptors to cloud security to secure multiparty computation. Wilson has also led trade studies for a number of existing and proposed Department of Defense data architectures, performed security analyses of highly-network-constrained key-agreement protocols, and led the testing and evaluation of cryptographic zero-knowledge systems and software.  As a security researcher, he considers paranoia to basically be his job description.   

Wilson received a PhD degree in computer science from MIT in 2014 with a focus in theoretical cryptography, under the supervision of Prof. Shafi Goldwasser.  Prior to that, he received BS degrees in computer science and mathematics and an MS degree in computer science from MIT, and worked as a software engineer for several years.