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Joseph Bonneau is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department, Courant Institute, New York University. He holds BS and MS degrees from Stanford, and completed his PhD as a Gates Cambridge Scholar in 2012 at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Professor Ross Anderson. He completed posdoctoral fellowships at Princeton, Stanford and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. His research focuses on applied cryptography and security engineering. He has particularly focused on human authentication, secure messaging tools, blockchains and decentralized systems, and public randomness protocols. He is a co-author of the popular textbook "Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies." Outside of work he is an avid rock climber, traveller and crossword solver.