Alice Silverberg

Alice Silverberg is professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. Her research concerns number theory and cryptography. With Karl Rubin, she introduced the CEILIDH system for torus-based cryptography in 2003.

Silverberg graduated from Harvard University in 1979, and received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1984 under the supervision of Goro Shimura. She joined the Ohio State University faculty in the same year, and moved to Irvine in 2004.

In 2012, Silverberg became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.